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Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July. Among the many features introduced with Linux 6.16 include Intel preparations for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), XFS atomic write support, a very nice EXT4 performance improvement, initial USB audio offloading support, the AMDKFD compute driver for ROCm can now be enabled on RISC-V hardware, NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the open-source Nouveau driver, Kexec Handover 'KHO' was merged as the basis for future additions, convenient reporting of hard/soft lock-up counts, Intel TDX host support for KVM, an Intel overclocking watchdog driver was merged, the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver was upstreamed for faster VPN performance, and there is even a fix for the old Macintosh II. Continue on for a more detailed breakdown of all the interesting changes to find with Linux 6.16.
Now that the Linux 6.16 kernel merge window closed this weekend, here is a convenient recap of all the interesting features coming in this next kernel release due out as stable around the end of July. Among the many features introduced with Linux 6.16 include Intel preparations for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), XFS atomic write support, a very nice EXT4 performance improvement, initial USB audio offloading support, the AMDKFD compute driver for ROCm can now be enabled on RISC-V hardware, NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the open-source Nouveau driver, Kexec Handover "KHO" was merged as the basis for future additions, convenient reporting of hard/soft lock-up counts, Intel TDX host support for KVM, an Intel overclocking watchdog driver was merged, the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver was upstreamed for faster VPN performance, and there is even a fix for the old Macintosh II. - Turbostat updates including support for Intel Diamond Rapids and Bartlett Lake processors.
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