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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

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation System

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While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there’s no signs of Intel’s open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation System

PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop

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It has finally happened: PipeWire 1.0 has been released as this now very common software to the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams. With time it’s proven to be a suitable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK while pushing forward the Linux desktop with its modern design and feature set…

Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop

Debian's MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access

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Debian’s MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an “out of sync” architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn’t improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 “Trixie”…

Source: Phoronix – Debian’s MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access