{
  "id": 1253742,
  "title": "AVX-512 xor_gen Continues To Look Exciting For Helping Linux RAID With Modern CPUs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/avx-512-xor-gen-continues-to-look-exciting-for-helping-linux-raid",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-16T10:54:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v4"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it as much as a 43% improvement for this AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() function. The code hasn't yet been merged to mainline but an updated version of it is now available...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}