Upstreamed to the Nouveau open-source kernel driver in Linux 6.19 was support for larger pages and with that compression support available with the larger page sizes. Subsequently the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver began making use of the larger pages and compressed image support dependent upon the larger page sizes as it should help with performance. But for now it's being temporarily disabled due to a discovered issue...
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Disable-NVK-Large-Page
Aggregated via Linux News
Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Disable-NVK-Large-Page
Aggregated via Linux News
