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The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 December, 2024

Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the next, in this holiday article are some benchmarks looking at the performance benefits of Linux 6.12 LTS compared to Linux 6.6 LTS while testing on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation.

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Intel Linux Performance Optimizations & Intel's Other Open-Source News From 2024

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 December, 2024

In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investments around open-source and Linux. Over 2024 there were many exciting performance optimizations, new Linux kernel features, GCC and LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain improvements, and countless other enhancements made throughout the open-source ecosystem by Intel engineers...

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Reiser5 Would Be Turning Five Years Old But Remains Dead

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 December, 2024

It was on New Year's Eve 2019 that Edward Shishkin announced the Reiser5 file-system as an evolution of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code. While next week would mark five years of Reiser5, the Reiser4/Reiser5 file-system still appears effectively dead and hasn't been touched in quite a while...

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AMD Ryzen PCs May See More Power Savings Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 6.14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 December, 2024

AMD Ryzen systems with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel may see increased power savings out-of-the-box due to an AMD P-State driver change queued up as part of the new power management code for this next version of the Linux kernel...

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Pre-Content fanotify / fanotify Hierarchical Storage Management Expected For Linux 6.14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 December, 2024

Queued up by way of linux-fs.git's "for_next" Git branch is the fanotify HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) implementation via the pre-content fanotify patch series...

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Hash-Based Integrity Checking Proposed For Linux To Help With Reproducible Builds

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 December, 2024

An interesting request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted on Christmas for introducing hash-based integrity checking to help with the reproducible builds initiative around the Linux kernel...

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Linux RNDIS Removal Branch Updated For Disabling Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 December, 2024

There's activity again around potentially disabling and then ultimately removing the RNDIS Linux kernel code for those drivers complying with the Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol specification. RNDIS was used atop USB for virtual Ethernet but has proven insecure and problematic...

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systemd Highlights For 2024 From Run0 To Varlink To Advancing systemd-homed

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 December, 2024

Systemd had another busy year working on many new features from run0 as a sudo alternative to making systemd-homed more robust, increasing Varlink use, systemd-boot continuing to gain more traction, and more...

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Intel Mesa Code Lands Big Patch Series For Treating Convergent Values As SIMD8

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 December, 2024

A patch series six months in the making and consisting of 24 patches by longtime Intel Linux graphics engineer Ian Romanick was merged on Christmas Eve for Mesa 25.0...