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Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Beeper-In-Kernel-Parsing-eBPF

phoronix.comAccelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x ThroughputAn interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high rates...
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Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Now Supports Alternate Data Streams (ADS) - https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Linux-7.4-Improvements

phoronix.comLinux's Modern NTFS Driver Now Supports Alternate Data Streams (ADS)Merged back in Linux 7.1 was the new NTFS kernel driver implementation for better supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system on Linux. Since then new features and improvements have continued to land for this NTFS driver with some more notable additions also coming in Linux 7.4...
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Linux 7.4 Expands Sensor Monitoring For More ASUS & MSI Motherboards, New Minisforum Driver - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-HWMON

phoronix.comLinux 7.4 Expands Sensor Monitoring For More ASUS & MSI Motherboards, New Minisforum DriverWith the Linux 7.4 kernel there are more MSI and ASUS motherboards with sensor monitoring support along with a variety of other additions to help broaden the selection of supported systems for hardware sensor monitoring under Linux. It's another busy cycle for the HWMON subsystem...
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Initial Support For The Apple M4 & Apple A18 Pro Make It Into Linux 7.4 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-SoCs

phoronix.comInitial Support For The Apple M4 & Apple A18 Pro Make It Into Linux 7.4The many SoC patches have landed within the Linux 7.4 kernel providing support for dozens of new boards as well as a number of new SoCs like the Apple M4 and the A18 Pro as found in the MacBook Neo. The Google Tensor 5 was also finally mainlined along with Pixel 10 devices. Plus some unreleased Qualcomm SoC support rounds out the bunch...
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Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept - https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x1e

phoronix.comSnapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E ConceptFor those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.
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Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DKMS

phoronix.comNouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUsNouveau-DKMS is in development as an out-of-tree spin-off of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver focused on providing better support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series graphics processors and potentially other generations too pre-Turing where the modern Nova driver is in development by NVIDIA...
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Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Core-MM-Tree

phoronix.comLinux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" TreeCore memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton's "MM" branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new "Core MM" tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward...
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EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-EXT4

phoronix.comEXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large WritesThe EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes...
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Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices" - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Char-Misc

phoronix.comGoogle's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices"Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what's being removed: Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices...
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Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Block

phoronix.comLinux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe SupportThe Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices...
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Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-memblock

phoronix.comLinux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50msSent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...
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Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Features - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Graphics-Drivers

phoronix.comLinux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FeaturesMerged overnight were all the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates consisting of many kernel graphics/display driver improvements. Arguably most exciting with these updates for Linux 7.4 is the AMD Radeon (AMDGPU) driver seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL enabled by default along with other HDMI 2.1 features...
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Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Borealis-Vulkan-Driver

phoronix.comBorealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe CodingSeeing a Vulkan API driver pull request this morning for introducing a new "Borealis" driver ID caught me by surprise as it was the first time I was hearing of such a driver. It turns out to be a fork of the Asahi Linux project's HoneyKrisp driver in Mesa for Apple Silicon hardware...
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oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations - https://www.phoronix.com/news/oneDNN-3.14-Released

phoronix.comoneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen OptimizationsThe UXL Foundation announced today the release of oneDNN 3.14 as the latest feature update to this library providing optimized deep learning operations for software like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and others. While oneDNN began as an Intel software project, making this version notable is beginning to see AMD Zen CPU optimizations land in oneDNN proper...