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      Linux 7.1 Is A Big Win For Intel Panther Lake With FRED Now Enabled By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:05

    Last month I ran benchmarks showing the very positive performance impact FRED has on Intel's new Panther Lake processors while wondering why Flexible Return and Event Deliver wasn't enabled by default yet on Linux. Hours after that story was published, an Intel engineer posted the patch to enable FRED by default with the rationale they were waiting for hardware to be publicly released in order to evaluate the performance benefit. Days after that the FRED-by-default patch hit tip/tip.git and now as of yesterday that patch is merged for Linux 7.1...
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      Intel Arc Pro B70 Open-Source Linux Performance Against NVIDIA RTX & AMD Radeon AI PRO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    Last week after receiving the Intel Arc Pro B70 review hardware I began with some benchmarks looking at how the Arc Pro B70 compared to existing Intel GPUs on Linux with their fully open-source driver stack. Today's article features the latest Arc Pro B70 benchmarks under Linux in looking at how the performance and value compares to other NVIDIA RTX and AMD Radeon (AI) PRO workstation graphics cards in the lab.
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      Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:24

    Eric Engestrom stepped up again to serve as Mesa release manager for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 feature release. Mesa 26.1-rc1 was just released in kicking off the weekly release candidate dance until Mesa 26.1 stable is ready for debut in May...
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      Fedora 45 To Consider Building x86_64-v3 Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:05

    A change proposal has been filed to build x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level packages alongside the existing x86_64-v1 packages for Fedora Linux...
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      Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:18

    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 • 12:45

    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 • 10:33

    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 • 10:25

    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 • 10:12

    The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...