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x32 Shadow Stacks, Locking Optimizations, Intel VFM & Other x86 Changes For Linux 6.10


Today marks the first official day of the Linux 6.10 merge window

Try it today to view our site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and more while the proceeds allow us to write more Linux hardware reviews. With the locking changes submitted for Linux 6.10 there are more than one dozen micro-optimizations to the atomic and spinlock code benefiting x86-based processors. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.

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