Intel HFI Driver Will Quit Wasting CPU Cycles With Linux 6.10
Intel's Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI) driver will act more efficiently come the Linux 6.10 kernel this summer.
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Intel's Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI) driver will act more efficiently come the Linux 6.10 kernel this summer.
Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the 'Family 6' CPU ID
Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver for open-source NVIDIA support has merged sparse memory support
Mesa 24.0 series release manager Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time bi-weekly point release for this set of open-source GPU user-space driver components
Sent in this morning via the 'x86/urgent' pull request ahead of the Linux 6.8-rc6 kernel later today is a set of patches from Intel to ensure clearing of CPU buffers using the VERW instruction happens at the latest possible point in the return-to-userspace code path