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      Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 April 2026

    Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks...
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      Linux 7.1 Adds New Child Auto-Reap & PIDFD Auto-Kill Flags For clone3()

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 April 2026

    The clone3() system call in Linux 7.1 is adding three new flags for greater control over the creation of child processes...
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      AMD EDAC Driver In Linux 7.1 Adds Support For Zen 3 Rembrandt Hardware With ECC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 April 2026

    The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem updates have been merged for Linux 7.1 that deal with reporting of ECC memory errors and the like from various hardware drivers...
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      Linux 7.1 Gets Rid Of Some Unnecessary Memory Clobbers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 April 2026

    The x86/asm changes merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a few low-level improvements...
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      exFAT For Linux 7.1 Helps Reduce File Fragmentation, Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 April 2026

    The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
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      Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 April 2026

    As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
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      AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...
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      LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...
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      Linus Torvalds Rejects Performance Fix "Hack" & Kconfig "Terrible Things" For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 April 2026

    While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-point commentary...