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Linux 6.18 To Deliver Many Notable Features For AMD CPUs


There is a lot coming for AMD processors with the Linux 6.18 kernel

With the x86/cache pull request for Linux 6.18 is support on AMD EPYC processors for assigning QOS bandwidth counters to resources. This is an opt-in SEV-SNP feature to prevent unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the cipher text of SNP guest private memory. The Linux 6.18 merge window hasn't even officially begun yet but already there is quite a bit on the AMD processor side for this next kernel cycle.

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