Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks For Intel Ivy Bridge

Earlier this month I delivered Radeon DRM driver benchmarks and Nouveau DRM driver benchmarks from the in-development Linux 3.10 kernel. Being published this Friday evening are now Intel Ivy Bridge graphics benchmarks from the Linux 3.10 kernel compared to the earlier releases going back to Linux 3.5…
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Linux 3.10 Kernel Benchmarks On A Core i7 Laptop

As our latest coverage of the Linux 3.10 kernel comes new comparison benchmarks of the latest development kernel compared to its predecessor from an Intel Core i7 laptop sporting NVIDIA graphics…
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Linux 3.10 Kernel Yields Biggest Changes In Years

The Linux 3.10 kernel is going to be massive with the just-released “-rc1″ version being the biggest in the last several years (or perhaps ever), according to Linus Torvalds. This massive change-rate is based at least according to commit count and potentially actual lines too…
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Linux 3.10 Kernel Integrates BCache HDD/SSD Caching

After being in development for more than one year, BCache was finally merged on Wednesday into the mainline Linux kernel code-base. BCache serves as an SSD caching framework for Linux by offering write-through and write-back caching through a newly-exposed block device…
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Lots Of Crypto Optimizations For Linux 3.10 Kernel

The cryptography pull request has been submitted for the Linux 3.10 kernel merge window. The crypto updates include optimizing various routines for recent CPU instruction set extensions…
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CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL Pulled Into Linux 3.10 Kernel

Support for “full dynticks” has been accepted into the mainline Linux 3.10 kernel…
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Audio Drivers Updated For The Linux 3.10 Kernel

The sound subsystem for the Linux kernel with the numerous hardware audio drivers have been updated for Linux 3.10…
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Full DynTicks Proposed For Linux Kernel Integration

Aside from the KVM pull request, another interesting proposed change for the Linux 3.10 kernel is the “full dynticks” support, also known as CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. Ingo Molnar is trying to get this brand new feature into the next Linux kernel release…
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Linux Kernel 3.9 Has Been Officially Released

After eight Release Candidate versions, Linus Torvalds proudly announced a couple hours ago, April 28, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux 3.9 kernel.
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Linux 3.9 Kernel Released With Lots Of Features

Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 3.9 kernel and with the new open-source kernel comes support for a whole lot of new features…
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Nouveau In Linux 3.10 Kernel Isn’t Too Exciting

The pull request for the open-source NVIDIA “Nouveau” Linux graphics driver for the Linux 3.10 kernel has been submitted to the DRM subsystem maintainer. While Nouveau has many shortcomings against the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver, there isn’t much to get excited about with this new kernel driver update…
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