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Is there something significant in 3.12?

• deleted 13y ago
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• plainOldText 13y ago
  It says right there in the post: * improvements to the dynamic tick code, * support infrastructure for DRM render nodes, * TSO sizing and the FQ scheduler in the network layer, * support for user namespaces in the XFS filesystem, * multithreaded RAID5 in the MD subsystem, * offline data deduplication in the Btrfs filesystem, and more.
  • m_ram 13y ago
    In case anyone else is curious, DRM in the kernel stands for Direct Rendering Manager [1]. It has nothing to do with the DRM that's usually discussed on HN. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager
    • RexRollman 13y ago
      Considering the negative connotations of DRM, I am surprised it isn't named something else.
      • cgh 13y ago
        The name Direct Rendering Manager has been around since the '90s, since the XFree86 days. So I'm pretty sure this abbreviation predates that of the "bad" DRM.
        • RexRollman 13y ago
          Good to know. Thanks.
      • xradionut 13y ago
        All TLA are overloaded.
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• jeltz 13y ago
  According to Phoronix benchmarks some workloads benefit greatly from the changes in CPU frequency scaling. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_312_performance http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_312...
• codex 13y ago
  Progress marches on, but as much as I enjoy some good kernel porn, only one in a thousand HN readers will be affected in any way at all.
• patrickmclaren 13y ago
  Significant for me, they reverted this bug - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61781 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61781 Could not get a dbus connection following resume from suspend. Very annoying.
• thejosh 13y ago
  Macbook Air (2013) support works better in 3.12.
• hornetblack 13y ago
  Looks like it fixes a bug in eDP clamping that scrambles by screen.