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Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

This driver would expose /dev/ntsync as a new character device for implementing some of the Windows NT synchronization primitives directly within the Linux kernel.

Elizabeth Figura of CodeWeavers who published the "request for comments" (RFC) to various Linux kernel mailing lists explained of the motivations for this synchronization primitive driver for targeting Windows NT kernel behavior: "The Wine project emulates the Windows API in user space.

One particular part of that API, namely the NT synchronization primitives, have historically been implemented via RPC to a dedicated "kernel" process.

The NT synchronization APIs are too complex to implement on top of existing primitives without sacrificing correctness.

With these "NTSYNC" kernel driver patches there are benefits to different Windows games on Wine from 21% with Metro 2033 to as much as 678% with DiRT 3!

In any event as this series is marked "RFC" and there are some open design elements to its implementation, it may take some revisions before settling down on something that could be upstreamed.

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