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Linux 7.2 Merges Significant IO_uring, NVMe, and Block Layer Updates

A significant set of storage-related changes, including enhancements to IO_uring, NVMe, and general block device code, have been merged into the Linux 7.2 kernel. These updates span various components...

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Linux 7.2 VFS IOmap Optimizations Yield 5% EXT4/XFS IOPS Gain

Phoronix recently reported that the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is set to introduce significant I/O performance gains for the EXT4 and XFS file systems. Changes within the VFS pull requests, specificall...

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Jens Axboe Patches Boost Linux Per-Core I/O Performance by 60%

Jens Axboe, lead developer of IO_uring and Linux block maintainer, has introduced new Linux kernel patches aimed at significantly improving per-core I/O performance. This effort follows a presentation...

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Bcachefs 1.37 Released with Linux 7.0 Support and Stable Erasure Coding

Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37, the newest feature release for this out-of-tree file-system driver and its user-space tooling. This update brings support for Linux kernel 7.0. A signific...

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Linux IO_uring Sees 50-80x Performance Gain with AI-Assisted AHCI/SCSI Fix

Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently utilized Claude AI to debug performance issues within the AHCI/SCSI code when using IO_uring. This collaboration led to the devel...

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Linux Patch Improves NVMe Performance by 15% with CPU Cluster-Aware Handling

Intel Linux engineers have developed a pending patch aimed at significantly improving NVMe storage performance on high core count processors. The optimization targets situations where multiple CPUs sh...

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