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Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (216+ words) Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior…...
Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency
2+ week, 4+ day ago (200+ words) Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors…...
Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance
3+ week, 12+ hour ago (224+ words) Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open…...
IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further
3+ week, 5+ day ago (228+ words) As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With…...
Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming
3+ week, 6+ day ago (238+ words) Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in…...