The Latest Sheaves Work To Hopefully Improve Linux Performance Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer. Plus there is a per-NUMA-node cache of Sheaves called a "Barn". In continuing to build out the Linux kernel usage of Sheaves, a set of initial patches were posted this week to replace the CPU slabs with Sheaves within the slub allocator code... image
Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions Vulkan 1.4.330 is out today with a few specification corrections/clarifications plus five new extensions... image
GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations GTK has long supported Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons but with up until recently relying on the external librsvg library, the integration hasn't been perfect. But Red Hat engineer Matthias Clasen has been working on having the GTK toolkit natively support SVG... image