RadeonSI Driver Now Supports AMD Trusted Memory Zone
With the AMDGPU kernel driver adding Trusted Memory Zone support for the Linux 5.8 kernel, Mesa 20.2-devel has now landed support for the RadeonSI driver to make use of this TMZ functionality...
FSGSBASE v12 Patches Published With Even Microsoft Intrigued By Its Performance
Just this weekend we were writing about the eleventh spin of the Linux FSGSBASE patches for this capability that can help out performance going back to Ivy Bridge era processors. Kicking off Monday, version twelve is already out and an explanation why a Microsoft developer has been stewarding these patches across the finish line...
Dbus-Broker 23 Released For High Performance D-Bus
The BUS1 API did see some activity back in March but with that in-kernel IPC mechanism not yet on approach for landing in the mainline Linux kernel, the Dbus-Broker project for a high-performance D-Bus implementation remains the best solution for the time being...
Intel Ice Lake "0x78" Microcode Update Having Small But Measurable Performance Hits
Following new Intel Ice Lake CPU microcode being published on Friday without any change-log and not updating prior Intel CPU family microcodes, I've begun looking at the performance as this first Intel CPU microcode update for Linux users since November. From my initial weekend testing there does seem to be some small but measurable and consistent performance impairments for Ice Lake from this microcode upgrade.
Linux 5.7-rc5 Released With More Changes But Not Worrying Torvalds
Linus Torvalds did his usual Sunday release dance and shipped Linux 5.7-rc5 as the latest kernel test release...
Rust Performance Is Getting Hurt On LLVM 10 With Noticeably Longer Build Times
While our benchmarks of Clang 10.0 have generally been favorable or at least no big regressions compared to LLVM/Clang 9.0, it seems the same can't be said for Rust when shifting their compiler base to LLVM 10.0...
Arch-Based EndeavourOS Sees New Release With Faster Installation, i3 Improvements
EndeavourOS 2020.05.08 has been released as the latest monthly install media for this Arch-based Linux distribution born out of the ashes of the former Antergos Linux...
FSGSBASE Patches Sent Out An 11th Time For Boosting CPU Performance Back To Ivy Bridge
The FSGSBASE patches for the Linux kernel have been sent out for their 11th time over the past few years to make use of this CPU instruction supported going back to Ivy Bridge hardware...
Intel Updates Microcode Binaries For Ice Lake On Linux
Intel on Friday quietly released new Intel CPU microcode files for Linux...
EXT4 Seeing Work To Speed Up Mount Times For Large File-Systems
Patches are pending that can sharply speed-up mount times of large EXT4 file-systems...