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      XFS Introducing Autonomous Self-Healing Capabilities With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 February 2026

    The XFS file-system has some interesting new feature work and performance tuning with the Linux 7.0 kernel that will be used by the likes of Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS this spring...
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      Intel Posts 2026 Update For Cache Aware Scheduling On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Not in time for the current Linux 7.0 cycle but posted for another round of review is Intel's latest work around Cache Aware Scheduling for enhancing the performance of modern CPUs with multiple cache domains. This is the first set of updates to Cache Aware Scheduling for the new year and succeed the v2 patches from early December. This work not only benefits modern Intel CPUs but our testing has shown can also provide some very nice gains too for AMD EPYC processors...
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      EXT4 In Linux 7.0 Improves Write Performance For Concurrent Direct I/O Writes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Sent out and already merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel are the EXT4 file-system updates...
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      AMD Video Decode Now Unified Between RadeonSI & RADV Vulkan Video

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Merged today to Mesa 26.1-devel is unifying of the AMD video decode implementation between the RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers...
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      SPARC & Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity In 2026 With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    In addition to all of the exciting Intel and AMD x86_64 enhancements that have been landing this week so far for the Linux 7.0 kernel, the aging SPARC, Alpha, and Motorola 680x0 "m68k" CPU ports have also seen some patches for this new kernel...
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      Arch Linux Running Well On LoongArch - Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Earlier this month I posted benchmarks of the Loongson 3B6000 for this 12-core / 24-thread LoongArch Chinese CPU with DDR4 ECC memory. Those initial benchmarks were done with Debian LoongArch64 while since then I've shifted over to using Arch Linux on LoongArch.
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      Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    Canonical released Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS today as the newest point release to the Noble Numbat...
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      Linux 7.0 Networking: Prepping For WiFi 8 UHR While Dropping Last Parallel Port Ethernet Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The Linux 7.0 networking pull request showcases two extremes and the diversity and robustness of the open-source kernel ecosystem. Linux 7.0 is laying the groundwork for WiFi 8 Ultra-High Reliability (UHR) support while this kernel version is also bidding farewell to the last Ethernet driver for use over parallel printer ports...
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      Linux 7.0 Brings A Significant Improvement For Workqueue Rescuer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 February 2026

    The Linux kernel's workqueue for async task handling within a dedicated kernel thread is seeing some useful improvements with Linux 7.0...