Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 29 June 2026 at 12:50 PM EDT. Page 2 of 6. 3 Comments.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
Timed Wasmer Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
Timed Erlang/OTP Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. Linux 7.1 was the fastest.

For the most part the Linux 7.2 kernel benchmarking on this 96-core Threadripper Zen 5 desktop/workstation was rather uneventful...

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: CPU-Only. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.

For most of the typical workstation workloads, the performance was largely similar between Linux 7.2 Git and Linux 7.1 stable.

Valkey benchmark with settings of Test: SET, Parallel Connections: 500. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
Valkey benchmark with settings of Test: SET, Parallel Connections: 800. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
Valkey benchmark with settings of Test: INCR, Parallel Connections: 500. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.
Valkey benchmark with settings of Test: INCR, Parallel Connections: 800. Linux 7.2 27 June was the fastest.

Valkey as the popular Redis fork was one of the first workloads where some performance gains on Linux 7.2 were exhibited. Nice to see the Valkey Linux performance continue to go up after seeing some improvements already on prior kernels.

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