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Technology3h 47m ago

Linux 7.2 gained a 5% IOPS performance increase on ext4/xfs filesystems due to a small code change.

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Who
Fengnan Chang, Christian Brauner
What
Linux 7.2 gained a 5% IOPS performance increase on ext4/xfs filesystems due to a small code change.
When
Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:28:00 GMT · 3h 47m ago
Where
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Why
Fengnan Chang moved three lines of code to skip an unnecessary iomap memset after iteration, freeing write bandwidth.
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How this affects you

This small change significantly boosts storage speed in Linux 7.2, demonstrating how minor code optimizations can lead to substantial performance gains for users.

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    A Linux engineer achieved a 5% storage speed boost in kernel version 7.2 by moving three lines of code.
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    Linux 7.2 gained a 5% IOPS performance increase on ext4/xfs filesystems due to a small code change.

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