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Linux 6.10 to merge NTSYNC driver for emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives

Going through my usual scanning of all the "-next" Git subsystem branches of new code set to be introduced for the next Linux kernel merge window, a very notable addition was just queued up... Linux 6.10 is set to merge the NTSYNC driver for emulating the Microsoft Win

osnews.com/story/139283/linux-

www.osnews.comLinux 6.10 to merge NTSYNC driver for emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives – OSnews

@osnews note the reporting here is a bit misleading. It's a huge improvement for *wine*, but for most titles proton is already using a much faster sync method than the baseline wine, so improvements from ntsync kernel module will be much more marginal. (It's good for many other reasons too, just don't expect a magical performance boost for games running in proton)