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Linux 6.16’s New “X86_NATIVE_CPU” Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads

Linux 6.16’s New “X86_NATIVE_CPU” Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads

With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the “-march=native” compiler optimizations for the kernel build in an effort to ensure peak performance/optimizations for the local system. Here are some benchmarks looking at the impact of X86_NATIVE_CPU on …

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