Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"
…can see the RFC patch series for all the details. With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM…
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Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
…A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems. JP Kobryn sent out a mm/vmpressure patch…
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support
Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling…
"Disgusting" Linux sched_ext Source Code Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds
…tree for sched_ext in making use of kernel/sched/ext/ instead of littering a bunch of ext_* files in the common scheduler directory. Linus Torvalds already merged the code to restructure…
Benchmarking The BORE Scheduler Performance With CachyOS Linux
…cachyos-bore is their default kernel build with the BORE scheduler patch applied. I hadn't tested this configuration specifically as part of my earlier CachyOS kernel comparison due to time/resource…
Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware
Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he…
Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1
…12 Comments A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code…
Intel NPU Linux Driver To Allow Limiting Frequency For Power & Thermal Management
…the Linux kernel driver is out for review on the dri-devel mailing list . Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer…
Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
…The embargo was broken on Dirty Frag last week ahead of schedule and thus proper fixes for the Linux kernel were yet in place for taking care of this local privilege escalation…
AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU
AMD Revives Linux Kernel Patches For Hardware-Accelerated vIOMMU Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 30 March 2026 at 06:03 AM EDT. 5 Comments Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware…