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      Linux 7.3 Improving RAID 5/6 Benchmark-Based Algorithm Selection

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:38

    Following the main set of memory management "MM" changes submitted for Linux 7.3, Andrew Morton sent in his "non-MM" pull request of the other patches he's been collecting from various developers for this next Linux kernel release. Standing out there were some improvements to the RAID 5/6 benchmark-based algorithm selection...
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      Linux 7.3 Better Protects Against Buggy EFI Firmware Taking Down The Rest Of User-Space

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    The EFI updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel. Most notable with the EFI updates is now enforcing a timeout foe EFI runtime service completions rather than potentially hanging indefinitely...
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      Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There is a lot of exciting GPU kernel driver improvements this cycle ranging from some notable enhancements to old AMD Radeon graphics hardware up through enabling support for some next-generation AMD graphics IP blocks to over on the Intel side where Nova Lake S graphics are being enabled by default...
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      ReactOS Merges Support For Job Objects As Step To Running Modern Windows Apps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Merged yesterday to the ReactOS code-base is initial support for Job Objects, which is an important milestone in the road to being able to run more modern Windows software under this open-source operating system striving for Windows driver/application compatibility...
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      Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submission of Micron's FAMFS file-system...
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      GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4...
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      Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open the door to more performance optimizations, reducing code duplication, and other enhancements...
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      Linux 7.3 Input Subsystem Updates Merged With Security Fixes, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The big set of input subsystem updates were merged earlier this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. It's a random assortment of different improvements as well as bug/security fixes driven in part by the flow of AI/LLM generated discoveries...
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      eCryptfs Sees Fixes For Potential Malicious Intent, Some Dating Back To Its 2006 Debut

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The eCryptfs stacked cryptographic filesystem implementation for the Linux kernel to transparently encrypt files saw a number of bug fixes for the Linux 7.3 kernel. A number of these bug fixes deal with potential maliciously-crafted data and vulnerable going back to the 2006 introduction of eCryptfs as this option known for its use on Ubuntu home directory encryption and Chrome OS...