The new Linux 6.6 kernel is now available, integrating an array of updated capabilities that will impact workstation, server and cloud deployments. Among the improvements that are part of Linux 6.6 ...

Linux kernel developers made a significant last-minute graphics change for Linux 7.2, reverting the DRM GPU scheduler back to its previous FIFO policy by default after the newer fair scheduling ...

Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...

Linux 7.2 focuses on modernization. A new GPU scheduler ensures more fairness, while CPU scheduling now uses CPU caches more efficiently.

Back in early November 2001, I started following a discussionbetween two factions of the Linux kernel community. The gist of thediscussion was over what was the best solution to the Linux ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore ...

Modifying any part of the Linux kernel source code is usually a challenging task most software developers would prefer to avoid, composed as it is thousands of code lines divided by hundred of files.

Michael Larabel—site owner of Phoronix, Linux software engineer, and open-source analyst—has recently had the chance of testing the new AMD EPYC processors in several Linux workloads. He has also run ...