Shared Virtual Memory News Today

The Intel open-source engineers working on the modern Xe DRM kernel graphics driver have begun looking at Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) support for cross-device and cross-driver scenarios as the latest exciting feature work for this still-experimental driver.

Intel's new Xe kernel graphics driver is set for merging into Linux 6.8 as an experimental option

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who leads development on Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL 'Rusticl' driver presented to share the progress made over the course of the year on this modern alternative to Gallium3D's Clover as well as some of the work still being pursued by this open-source OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers.

Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver is now exposing system Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support with the necessary API bits being in place for the modern Rusticl OpenCL driver as well as the older Clover code

Mesa 23.1 enables RadeonSI Rusticl support while for next quarter's Mesa 23.2, which just started development, there is already a big ticket item for Rusticl: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support.

We have not seen Intel's Sapphire Rapids series and information has already surfaced regarding the next generation of Intel's HEDT CPUs.  Yuuki_ans