Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
With Linux 6.18 LTS and continuing with Linux 7.1 upstream, the random read performance atop the EXT4 file-system and using IO_uring has been enjoying noticeably better performance than the older LTS kernel versions. Very solid improvement for FIO with the random read speed.
The RocksDB database was showing some sizable improvements too in the two newer Linux kernel versions tested.
Apache Cassandra similarly showed a nice boost to performance with Linux 6.18 LTS and newer.
CouchDB? The best performance running the latest upstream Linux kernel.
It wasn't just storage I/O benchmarks showing nice gains out of the newer upstream Linux kernel, but Linux 7.1 was also performing quite nicely for local network throughput too as measured by Sockperf.