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Linux 6.15 Fixes A Performance Issue For Extremely Heavy Read-Only Workloads

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

Completely separate from the big performance regression I noted earlier this week for the Linux 6.15 Git kernel and fixed yesterday in the upstream codebase, another significant performance issue was also uncovered and fixed this week in Linux 6.15 Git...

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New Patches Get Linux Booting On The Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

New Linux kernel patches have been posted adding the necessary Device Tree files so that Linux is able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus laptop...

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Mesa Falling Back To Its Multi-File Cache Due To Performance Reasons

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over performance issues...

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Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver...

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AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 April

AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...

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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Brings KDE Plasma 6 By Default, Official Server Edition

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 April

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock is now available with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop shipping by default while still offering both Wayland and X11 session options. There is also now an official server edition of OpenMandriva...

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Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For "3x Performance Regression" Affecting Nginx & Other Software

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 April

The Linux 6.15 kernel has just merged a fix for the big performance regression I spotlighted yesterday on Phoronix with a huge hit to the Nginx HTTPS web server performance that could see a 3x regression from the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel code. It turns out other workloads/applications also were negatively impacted by this regression. While a stumper at first even with the bisected commit, the issue was luckily resolved very quickly.

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Mesa 25.1-rc2 Released With NVK Vulkan 1.4 Conformance For Older NVIDIA GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 April

Mesa 25.1-rc2 is now available for testing as the newest weekly test version of this collection of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Mesa 25.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in May...

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Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 April

Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.