Nova Lake S Adds 7 GPU IDs to Linux 7.3
PCI device IDs for Intel Nova Lake S’s integrated Xe3P GPU have been added to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Seven IDs are now recognized, and new support includes resolving HuC firmware dependencies.
PCI device IDs for Intel Nova Lake S’s integrated Xe3P GPU have been added to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Seven IDs are now recognized, and new support includes resolving HuC firmware dependencies.
Patches have been merged into Linux 7.2-rc2 to implement indirect branch predictor and IBPB flushes in BPF JIT allocator memory reuse, significantly reducing the risk of JIT spraying attacks.
According to Phoronix, an extended patch for Cache Aware Scheduling merged into Linux Kernel 7.2 has achieved up to 360% performance gains in MySQL.
Linux 7.2 kernel speeds up /proc/filesystem reads by up to 444%. The filesystem list, which libselinux references far more often than expected, has been dramatically improved through RCU conversion and pre-generation.
The modular 64-bit Unix-like kernel "zinnia" written in Rust has achieved booting on real x86_64 hardware. It features POSIX-compliant system calls and a modular driver design.
Google's Eric Biggers updates Linux kernel AVX-512 xor_gen() to v2 achieving up to 43% faster RAID5/RAID6 parity benefiting Btrfs and others
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