…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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 Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 30 March 2026 at 06:03 AM EDT. 5 Comments Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware…
Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 16 April 2026 at 05:24 PM EDT. 1 Comment…
Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 14 April 2026 at 04:21 PM EDT. 29 Comments Code…
…Moving to the Linux 6.18 upstream kernel has allowed Microsoft to drop some out-of-tree patches around the VirtIO PMEM support a,d other bits compared to their prior Linux…