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| Linux 7.1 Lands High Resolution Timer "HRTIMER" Overhaul | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-18 |
| Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1 | Linux Kernel | 2026-04-10 |
| Hangs & Performance Regression On Large Systems Fixed For Linux 7.0-rc4 | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-15 |
| Linux 7.1 Expected To See Nice Improvements For Reducing HRTICK Timer Overhead | Linux Kernel | 2026-03-01 |
| A Decade In The Making, Time Slice Extension Could Be Merged For Linux 7.0 | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-24 |
| Linux Consulting Firm Linutronix Recently Began A New Chapter | Linux Kernel | 2026-01-11 |
| Scoped User Access In Linux 6.19 To Reduce Speculation Barriers & Its Performance Hit | Linux Security | 2025-12-03 |
| Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19 | Linux Kernel | 2025-12-02 |
| Linux 6.19 Slated To Land "mm/cid" Rewrite That Has Very Positive Performance Potential | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-20 |
| AMD's Zen 5 RDSEED Issue Is Causing Headaches For Optimized CachyOS Builds | Operating Systems | 2025-11-04 |
| Linux 6.19 To Optimize Exiting To User-Space For Restartable Sequences | Linux Kernel | 2025-11-03 |
| New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-17 |
| Linux 6.10 Adds Support For Posted Interrupts On Bare Metal Hardware | Hardware | 2024-05-17 |
| Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-20 |
| Linux 6.9 Has A Big Rework To CPU Timers - Some Power/Performance Benefits | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-19 |
| Linux 6.9 Lands Reworked Topology Code For Better Hybrid CPU Support | Linux Kernel | 2024-03-12 |
| CUDA On ROCm, Ryzen 8000G Series & Rust Activity Made For An Exciting February | Phoronix | 2024-03-01 |
| Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code | Hardware | 2024-02-16 |
| Linux 6.7 Overhauls x86 CPU Microcode Loading | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-10 |
| New Set Of 86 Patches Overhaul The Linux Kernel's Preemption Model | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-08 |
| Last Minute Linux 6.6 Fixes Address Nine "Unusable" Lenovo AMD Laptops | Hardware | 2023-10-27 |
| Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64 | Intel | 2023-09-18 |
| Linux Microcode Loading For x86 32-bit CPUs Being Cleaned Up & Corrected | Linux Kernel | 2023-08-22 |
| Intel Making Improvements For CPU Microcode Updating Under Linux | Intel | 2023-08-14 |
| New Linux Kernel Code Works On APIC "Decrapification", Suggests Dropping x86 32-bit | Linux Kernel | 2023-07-18 |
| Linux 6.5 Delays x86 FPU Initialization As Part Of Cleaning Up The Kernel Boot Process | Intel | 2023-06-27 |
| Linux x86 Boot Process Trying To Cleanup "Hay-Wire Circuits, Duct Tape & Super Glue" | Linux Kernel | 2023-06-14 |
| Linux Lands Fix For Potentially Bogus Number Of Intel Hybrid CPU HT Siblings | Intel | 2023-05-28 |
| Parallel CPU Bring-Up Poised For Linux 6.5 | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-16 |
| Linux Patches Updated For Parallel CPU Bring-Up | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-09 |
| Linux Kernel Drama: AMD's Spectral Chicken | AMD | 2023-04-26 |
| Reworked x86_64 Parallel Boot Support Posted For The Linux Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2023-04-15 |
| Linux Parallel CPU Start-Up Restored For AMD CPUs To Yield Faster Boot Times | AMD | 2023-02-08 |
| Linux 6.2 Brings A Big Rework To The MSI Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-25 |
| Call Depth Tracking Aligning For Linux 6.2 To Lessen Mitigation Performance Hit For Intel Skylake | Linux Security | 2022-10-19 |
| Linux 6.1 Cleans Up More Code For PREEMPT_RT | Linux Kernel | 2022-10-05 |
| Linux Sees A New Attempt At Threaded Console Printing | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-11 |
| Retbleed: Call Depth Tracking Mitigation Eyed To Avoid IBRS "Performance Horror Show" | Linux Security | 2022-07-17 |
| Linux 5.19 Frowns On x86/x86_64 Late Microcode Loading - "It's Just Lottery & Broken" | Linux Kernel | 2022-06-06 |
| VirtualBox On Linux Affected By Security Vulnerability Leaking Host Data To Guests | Virtualization | 2022-05-18 |
| Intel Ramps Up Linux Investment By Acquiring Linutronix | Intel | 2022-02-23 |
| Linux x86 FPU Code Getting Reworked In Preparation For Intel AMX | Intel | 2021-10-12 |
| Linux 5.15-rc5 x86 Changes Aim To Fix "Yet Another Hardware Trainwreck" | Intel | 2021-10-10 |
| Linux 5.15 In 2021 Is Still Improving Intel 486 Era Hardware Support | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-31 |
| PREEMPT-RT Locking Infrastructure Possibly Ready For Linux 5.15 | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-18 |
| Real-Time Patches Updated For The Linux 5.13 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-08 |
| Linux 5.14 Bringing A Major Cleanup To The x86 FPU Code | Linux Kernel | 2021-07-07 |
| Real-Time Support "PREEMPT_RT" For Linux Held Up Due To Lack Of Funding | Linux Kernel | 2021-06-11 |
| After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance | Linux Kernel | 2020-08-04 |
| It's Looking Like FSGSBASE Support Might Finally Land In Linux 5.9 | Intel | 2020-06-19 |
| AMD MCE Improvements, Renoir Temperature + EDAC Support Sent In For Linux 5. 8 | AMD | 2020-06-13 |
| TLB State Access Being Tightened Up On Linux For Better Security | Linux Security | 2020-04-21 |
| The Big Set Of x86 Changes Hit The Linux 5.6 Kernel | Hardware | 2020-01-28 |
| The Linux Kernel Enters 2020 At 27.8 Million Lines In Git But With Less Developers For 2019 | Linux Kernel | 2020-01-01 |
| The Linux Kernel Firms Up The Process For Dealing With Nasty Hardware Vulnerabilities | Linux Security | 2019-09-29 |
| It Turns Out CPU Speculative Execution Can Be Useful For Random Entropy / RNG | Hardware | 2019-09-29 |
| x86 CPU Changes For Linux 5.3 Bring Intel UMWAIT, Zhaoxin, Engineering Train Wreck | Linux Kernel | 2019-07-08 |
| Linux's Performance-Boosting FSGSBASE Support Dropped For Now Over Serious Bugs | Hardware | 2019-07-05 |
| Linux 5.3 Could Finally See FSGSBASE - Performance Improvements Back To Ivybridge | Intel | 2019-06-17 |
| Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 | Linux Kernel | 2019-03-05 |
| Reworked STIBP Code Lands In Linux 4.20 To Fix The Performance | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-01 |
| STIBP Patches Updated One Last Time Before Heading To Linux 4.20 | Linux Kernel | 2018-11-25 |
| More Spectre Variant Two Patches Queued For The Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2018-09-26 |
| Another Minor Optimization Queued For Systems Mitigated Against Spectre / Meltdown | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-08 |
| A Batch Of x86 Speculation Fixes Headed To The Linux 4.19 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2018-09-02 |
| A Lot Of Spectre Changes Land In The Linux 4.19 Git Tree, Possible Performance Impact | Linux Security | 2018-08-14 |
| Linux 4.19 Will Have Enhanced IBRS For Better Spectre V2 Protection On Future Intel CPUs | Linux Security | 2018-08-03 |
| Initial SpectreRSB Support Queued For Merging Into The Mainline Linux Kernel | Linux Security | 2018-07-31 |
| Linux 4.17 Gets More Spectre V1 Fixes | Linux Kernel | 2018-05-13 |
| The Linux Kernel Might Drop Memory Protection Extensions Support | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-28 |
| A Last Minute Linux 4.17 Pull To Help Non-PCID Systems With KPTI Meltdown Performance | Linux Kernel | 2018-04-15 |
| More Spectre + Meltdown Updates Heading Into Linux 4.16 | Linux Kernel | 2018-03-18 |
| Linux 4.16 Receives More Spectre & Meltdown Fixes/Optimizations | Linux Security | 2018-02-26 |
| Spectre V1 Mitigation, IBPB Support Sent In For Linux 4.16 | Linux Security | 2018-02-04 |
| Spectre / Meltdown Code Gets Cleaned Up, Improvements For Linux 4.16 | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-29 |
| Linux 4.15-rc7 Kernel Released | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-07 |
| Linux Will End Up Disabling x86 PTI For AMD Processors - Update: Now Disabled | Linux Kernel | 2018-01-03 |
| Intel Cache Quality Monitoring Gets Rewritten For Linux 4.14 | Intel | 2017-09-06 |
| Linux 4.3 Git Stats: 20.6 Million Lines | Linux Kernel | 2015-11-01 |
| Linux 3.19 Kernel Adds Intel MPX Support For Skylake | Linux Kernel | 2014-12-09 |
| New Linux CPU Hot-Plugging Works Out "Nightmare" | Linux Kernel | 2013-01-31 |
| Linux 3.0 Real-Time Kernel Released | Linux Kernel | 2011-07-23 |
| Linux Kernel Performance Counter Subsystem | Linux Kernel | 2008-12-08 |
