The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs
…Thus this patch in tip/tip.git's "x86/cpu" branch makes TSC support unconditional for x86 kernel builds. Separate to that Kconfig patch to make TSC unconditional, the non-TSC code…
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Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models
…Last month I wrote about a new patch from AMD expandign the range of Zen 6 CPUs detected by the Linux kernel . It's that patch now queued up for merging today…
AVX-512 Optimization For Linux RAID Showing Up To 41% Improvement On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
…He commented with today's patch the details and it targeting AMD Zen 4 and newer, Intel Sapphire Rapids and newer, or on the Intel client side is either Rocket Lake generation…
A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
…Among the MM patches now merged for Linux 7.1 include: - A patch series to remove the static "swap_map" and using the swap table for the swap count directly can save…
Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
…Greg also called Rust "more fun for maintainers" and "more secure Linux for users". Greg ultimately ended his presentation with calling for more Rust Linux kernel developers. Those interested can find his…
Linux 7.1 Picks Up The MMC Changes After Rejected By Linus In Linux 7.0
…The Kingston secure erase work can have quite a dramatic impact in 1GB secure erase going from ~10 minutes to about 2 seconds . The MMC pull request was sent out on Monday…
The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2
…I have benchmarked earlier versions of the patches and found great performance on AMD EPYC CPUs and Xeon 6 benefiting nicely too . Earlier this month I noted that it looked like Cache…
Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
…New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes WireGuard For Windows Reaches v1.0…
NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob
…7 Comments Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator . The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing…
FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE Feature Coming For Linux 7.1
…Avoid Tricking Secure Programs OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase…