As expected, Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the Linux 4.10 kernel series, which add a great number of improvements, new security features, and support for the newest hardware components.
...Prominent new features include virtual GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) support, new "perf c2c" tool that can be used for analysis of cacheline contention on NUMA systems, support for the L2/L3 caches of Intel processors (Intel Cache Allocation Technology), eBPF hooks for cgroups, hybrid block polling, and better writeback management.
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That looks very promissing.
Hopefully there will also be allot of driver support improvements.
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Looking forward to trying AMDGPU with virtual GPU :)
Something all gaming have wanted is virtual GPU's. Intel boasting only 5% slower than native. Ryzen support as well.
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the virtual GPU(GVT-g ) an Intel igpu only feature?
I believe AMD and Nvidia are planning to support it. I guess the question will be when. If it stays only for the only for AMD FirePro™ S-Series GPU's that will suck.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Virtualization-Patches