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Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts

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Ampere Computing has sent out its latest patch attempt at increasing the number of Arm CPU cores supported by the mainline Linux kernel. As it stands at the moment the 64-bit ARM mainline Linux kernel build supports 256 cores, which can be exceeded with Ampere’s new AmpereOne processors in a multi-socket configuration…

Source: Phoronix – Ampere Preparing The ARM64 Linux Kernel To Support Higher CPU Core Counts

"GMEM" Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

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Generalized Memory Management “GMEM” has been proposed as a new solution to be developed for the Linux kernel to deal with memory management for external memory devices like the growing number of accelerators coming to market…

Source: Phoronix – “GMEM” Proposed To Deal With Memory Management For Accelerators, External Memory Devices

Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

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A new release of Coreboot is available today as the increasingly popular open-source system firmware solution that’s used by Chromebooks, increasing hyperscaler / data center industry interest due to increased code transparency and security, System76 laptops, and more. Coreboot 4.22 is the new release and brings initial AMD OpenSIL code integration, 17 new motherboard ports, and more. Coreboot 4.22 will be succeeded next year by Coreboot 24.02…

Source: Phoronix – Coreboot 4.22 Released: Initial AMD OpenSIL Code Added, 17 New Motherboards

Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

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Intel today published Compute-Runtime 23.35.27191.9 as their latest update to this open-source GPU compute stack enabling OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Linux and Windows. With this being their first tagged release since September, it’s coming in heavy on changes…

Source: Phoronix – Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack

Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD

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Corsair this month released the MP700 PRO NVMe SSD as the company’s newest PCI Express Gen5 NVMe SSD. After the initial issues encountered with the Corsair MP700, I was eager to see how well this PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive would perform. Corsair rates their MP700 PRO SSD as capable of reaching up to 12,400 MB/s sequential reads and 11,800 MB/s sequential writes.

Source: Phoronix – Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD

Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros

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One thing that has never gotten old over the past nearly twenty years of covering Linux news on Phoronix are the relentless performance optimizations made to the Linux kernel, GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers, and other key open-source projects over the years. Intel engineers have been responsible for so many exciting Linux performance optimizations over time at ensuring maximum Linux x86_64 performance as well as ensuring great performance at a macro-level as they’ve showcased with the likes of Clear Linux. It looks like they have some new innovation(s) in store soon for further maximizing compiler-assisted performance…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros

OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue

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Last week OpenZFS 2.2.1 was released with a reported fix for a data corruption issue that was initially blamed as being a block cloning bug for a new feature introduced in the v2.2 release. Well, it turns out that the block cloning feature isn’t the root cause and that v2.2.1 is still prone to data corruption and pre-v2.2 releases are also vulnerable to this file-system data corruption issue…

Source: Phoronix – OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue

FreeBSD 14.0 Is Delivering Great Performance Uplift & Running Well In Early Tests

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Following last week’s release of FreeBSD 14.0, I’ve begun testing out this major FreeBSD operating system update on a number of servers. What’s clear so far is the performance being much improved with FreeBSD 14.0 on modern x86_64 Intel/AMD servers over FreeBSD 13.

Source: Phoronix – FreeBSD 14.0 Is Delivering Great Performance Uplift & Running Well In Early Tests

Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way

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Thanks to prolific RADV driver developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve’s Linux graphics team, mesh/task shader queries have landed for GFX10.3 (RDNA2) with the in-development Mesa 24.0 while support for GFX11 (RDNA3) graphics cards is on the way…

Source: Phoronix – Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way