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AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (239+ words) An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end…...
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
3+ week, 5+ day ago (214+ words) Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing…...
The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights
1+ week, 5+ day ago (236+ words) It was a very busy month of August with the Linux kernel developers continue to be flooded with AI/LLM-generated patches and bug reports. Plus there was the general resolution on AI usage within the Debian project and other open-source…...
Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD
2+ week, 21+ hour ago (242+ words) Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed…...
Former Intel Engineer Who Was One Of The Clear Linux Architects Is Starting A New Distro
1+ week, 5+ day ago (192+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Former Intel Engineer Who Was One Of The Clear Linux Architects Is Starting A New Distro Michael Larabel is the principal author of…...
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (210+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks The libxsmm library for specialized dense and sparse matrix operations and deep learning…...
GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V
1+ week, 3+ day ago (214+ words) As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early…...
Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads
3+ week, 1+ day ago (231+ words) The highlight of this week's x86/mm pull request of changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are fixes that reduce the time that the TLB flushing code has interrupts disabled. This helps significantly with latency-sensitive workloads but Intel engineer Dave Hansen noted…...
Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
3+ week, 3+ day ago (254+ words) Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 "added-to-MM" emails were sent out this cycle compared to 920 the prior cycle. With…...
NVIDIA-Started Open Secure AI Alliance Moves To The Linux Foundation
1+ week, 3+ day ago (218+ words) Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being…...