Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present t…

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete - Phoronix

Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development

Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware - Phoronix

The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optim…

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay - Phoronix

Merged today to the Intel open-source 'ANV' Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator

Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface. This QIORing may also end up supporting Microsoft's Windows IORing implementation as well...

Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction - Phoronix

The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Approved For Fedora 44 Packaging, Fedora Budgie Spin All-Wayland In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Approved For Fedora 44 Packaging, Fedora Budgie Spin All-Wayland - Phoronix

In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steerin...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates - Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS.

Linux Foundation's Newest Endeavor: The Agentic AI Foundation The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional "Linux" landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation...

Linux Foundation's Newest Endeavor: The Agentic AI Foundation - Phoronix

The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional '...

Scheduler Woes: Bisecting Early Performance Regressions Found In Linux 6.19 Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I've found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. Those initial benchmarks were on an AMD EPYC server. Since then I've seen many of the same workloads regressing similarly on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation between Linux 6.18 and Linux 6.19 Git. Given the significant impact and AMD Thr…

Scheduler Woes: Bisecting Early Performance Regressions Found In Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I've found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable.

Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Lina…

Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap - Phoronix

For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel

Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was merged on Monday. There are various NVMe updates now merged plus enabling per-CPU BIO caching by default to help with file-system performance...

Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance - Phoronix

Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was m...