The Linux 6.16.1 and 6.15.10 stable kernels brought a patch that fixes Intel i915 GPU performance drops up to 30%, making GPU speeds bussin’, no cap.
The regression was caused by a shmem large folio support change that screwed PMD-sized allocations and left users shook.
The fix, backported since 6.14, is now in stable releases so peeps on 6.15.10/6.16.1 and later can vibe check their GPU gains.
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