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      Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements...
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      Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it's been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware...
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      AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    The AppArmor improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3 for this kernel security module providing per-program Linux application security controls around system resources. Most notable this cycle is being able to load user-space compressed policies...
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      LLVM Improves Zen 1 / Zen 2 Support To Deal With "Notoriously Bad" PDEP/PEXT

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain merged overnight better support for the nearly decade-old AMD Zen 1 processors and also helps with Zen+ and Zen 2 processors too. This latest work thanks to the open-source community is for providing more informed instruction scheduling around PDEP and PEXT that end up being quite costly for these original Zen processors...
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      NFS Improvements Arrive For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    The Network File-System (NFS) improvements for both the client and server code have been merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.3 merge window...
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      Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...
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      Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...
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      Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
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      Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X when limited to 6 cores, 12 cores, 24 cores, 48 cores, and then the 48 cores + HT default configuration.