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      Linux 7.3 Adds RWF_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:15

    With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO_uring space...
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      Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:19

    For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...
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      Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:21

    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 • 10:32

    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 • 10:18

    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 • 10:05

    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 • 9:49

    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 • 0:25

    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 • 19 hours 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...