Jens Axboe Linux & Open-Source News |
| Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements | Linux Storage | 2026-09-11 |
| Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance | Linux Storage | 2026-05-10 |
| DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel | Linux Storage | 2026-03-27 |
| Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February | Phoronix | 2026-03-01 |
| AI Helped Uncover A "50-80x Improvement" For Linux's IO_uring | Linux Storage | 2026-02-19 |
| Linux 7.0 Adds support For BPF Filtering To IO_uring | Linux Kernel | 2026-02-10 |
| Linux's ublk Adding Batch I/O Dispatch Capability For Greater Performance | Linux Storage | 2026-01-30 |
| IO_uring Zero-Copy Large Receive Buffer Support To Provide A Nice Performance Win | Linux Networking | 2026-01-29 |
| Linux 7.0 Expected To Bring IO_uring IOPOLL Polling Improvements | Linux Storage | 2025-12-29 |
| A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19 | Linux Storage | 2025-11-24 |
| IO_uring Ready For uring_cmd Multishot Support With Provided Buffers | Linux Storage | 2025-08-24 |
| Linux 6.17 Looks To Drop The pktcdvd Packet Writing CD/DVD Driver | Linux Storage | 2025-07-10 |
| NVMe FDP Block Write Streams, IO_uring DMA-BUF Zero Copy Receive Land In Linux 6.16 | Linux Storage | 2025-06-03 |
| Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP" | Linux Storage | 2025-05-07 |
| IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands In Linux 6.15 | Linux Kernel | 2025-03-30 |
| IO_uring Zero-Copy Receive Support Ready For Linux 6.15 Networking | Linux Networking | 2025-02-07 |
| Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14 | Linux Kernel | 2025-01-24 |
| JUring: Experimental IO_uring For Java With Big Performance Gains | Linux Storage | 2025-01-14 |
| Uncached Buffered I/O Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.14 With Big Gains | Linux Storage | 2024-12-24 |
| IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling & Ring Resizing With Linux 6.13 | Linux Storage | 2024-11-28 |
| Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media | Linux Storage | 2024-11-18 |
| Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now On Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS | Linux Storage | 2024-11-13 |
| Fresh Take On Linux Uncached Buffered I/O "RWF_UNCACHED" Nets 65~75% Improvement | Linux Storage | 2024-11-06 |
| IO_uring Async Discard Submitted For Linux 6.12 | Linux Storage | 2024-09-15 |
| Linux 6.11 Adds Support For Rust-Based Block Drivers & Atomic Writes | Linux Storage | 2024-07-16 |
| Linux 6.11 To Introduce Block Atomic Writes - Including NVMe & SCSI Support | Linux Storage | 2024-07-07 |
| IO_uring Bringing Better Send Zero-Copy Performance With Linux 6.10 | Linux Storage | 2024-05-12 |
| Drop-In CUDA On AMD, Kernel Discussions, NGINX Fork & Other Q1 Highlights | Phoronix | 2024-04-01 |
| Framework 16, New AMD Launches & More Made For An Exciting January | Phoronix | 2024-02-01 |
| BFQ I/O Scheduler For Linux Sees Big Scalability Improvement | Linux Storage | 2024-01-21 |
| MQ-Deadline Scheduler Optimized For Much Better Scalability | Linux Storage | 2024-01-19 |
| ~5 Minutes Of Coding Yields A 6%+ Boost To Linux I/O Performance | Linux Storage | 2024-01-16 |
| IO_uring FUTEX Support In Linux 6.7 For A Nice Performance/Efficiency Boost | Linux Kernel | 2023-11-07 |
| Linux 6.6 Lands "Pretty Juicy" IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency With IO_uring | Linux Storage | 2023-08-29 |
| IO_uring Adding Support For Vectored FUTEX Waits In Linux 6.6 | Linux Storage | 2023-08-14 |
| Pipe FMODE_NOWAIT Support Sent In For Linux 6.4 As A 10~23x Performance Improvement | Linux Kernel | 2023-05-06 |
| IOCB_NOWAIT For Linux Pipes Yields 10~23x Performance Improvement | Linux Storage | 2023-03-08 |
| Floppy Driver Update Ready For Linux 6.2 - Still Being Maintained In 2023 | Linux Kernel | 2022-12-05 |
| AMD Ryzen 7000 Series, Linux 6.0, MGLRU, Rust & IO_uring Made For An Exciting September | Phoronix | 2022-10-01 |
| IO_uring Continues To Prove Very Exciting: Promising io_uring_spawn Announced | Linux Kernel | 2022-09-13 |
| IO_uring To Ring In Some Awesome Improvements With Linux 6.0 | Linux Storage | 2022-08-01 |
| IO_uring Zerocopy Send Is Ready For Linux 5.20 Networking | Linux Networking | 2022-07-20 |
| IO_uring User-Space Block Driver Coming For Linux 5.20 | Linux Storage | 2022-07-15 |
| Rust For Linux, -O3'ing The Kernel & Other Highlights From June | Phoronix | 2022-07-01 |
| liburing 2.2 Released For Easier IO_uring Usage On Linux | Linux Storage | 2022-06-26 |
| Linux 5.20 To Support Async Buffered Writes For XFS + IO_uring For Big Performance Boost | Linux Storage | 2022-06-22 |
| IO_uring Continues Advancing In 2022 With New Features For Pushing Linux I/O | Linux Storage | 2022-06-01 |
| Many IO_uring Improvements Submitted For Linux 5.19 | Linux Storage | 2022-05-23 |
| Apple M1 NVMe Linux Driver Out For Review | Apple | 2022-03-31 |
| Latest Linux Code Smashes 14M IOPS Per-Core With Intel Core i9 12900K + Optane | Linux Storage | 2022-03-23 |
| Many NVMe Updates & Other Block Changes For Linux 5.18 | Linux Storage | 2022-03-20 |
| IO_uring Gets New Features & Speed-Ups With Linux 5.18 | Linux Storage | 2022-03-19 |
| IO_uring Gets Network Overhead Reduction By 3~4% | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-17 |
| Intel Core i9 12900K On Linux Reigns "King Of The IOPS-Per-Core" | Linux Storage | 2022-02-19 |
| Linux On The Apple M1 Preparing Better Performance With In-Development CPUFreq Driver | Apple | 2022-02-16 |
| Hypocrite Commits, Rust RFC & FUTEX2 Were Among Popular Kernel Topics In 2021 | Linux Kernel | 2022-01-01 |
| The Most Exciting AMD Linux / Open-Source News Of 2021 | AMD | 2021-12-29 |
| Linux 5.17 To Continue With I/O Optimizations, 5~6% Improvement Pending For NVMe | Linux Storage | 2021-11-17 |
| Many Block Improvements Land In Linux 5.16 - Multi-Actuator Hard Drive Support | Linux Storage | 2021-11-01 |
| Performance Optimizations, Other "Big" Work For Linux 5.16 To The Block Code | Linux Storage | 2021-10-31 |
| Newest Linux Optimizations Can Achieve 10M IOPS Per-Core With IO_uring | Linux Storage | 2021-10-25 |
| Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core With Newest Linux Optimization Patches | Linux Storage | 2021-10-17 |
| 7.4M IOPS Achieved Per-Core With Newest Linux Patches | Linux Storage | 2021-10-12 |
| More Optimizations Has Linux Approaching 7M IOPS Per Core | Linux Storage | 2021-10-11 |
| Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core With AMD Zen 3 + Intel Optane | Linux Storage | 2021-09-30 |
| Linux IO_uring Can Now Achieve Up To ~3.8M IOPS Per-Core | Linux Storage | 2021-09-26 |
| The Increasing Importance Of ACPI Platform Profiles With Today's Throttle-Happy Hardware | Hardware | 2021-09-17 |
| Linux Has A New Maintainer For Its CD-ROM Driver Code | Hardware | 2021-09-04 |
| Linux 5.15 I/O Can Achieve Up To ~3.5M IOPS Per-Core | Hardware | 2021-08-30 |
| Linux 5.15 Block Changes From Removing LightNVM To Fixing Up The Floppy Driver | Linux Kernel | 2021-08-30 |
| Linux Could Use A New Maintainer For Its CD-ROM Code | Hardware | 2021-08-27 |
| IO_uring Squeezes More Performance With Linux 5.13 | Linux Storage | 2021-05-03 |
| Linux 5.12 Lands Fix For File-System Corruption Caused By Swapfile Issue | Linux Kernel | 2021-03-03 |
| IO_uring Will Be Even Faster With Linux 5.12 | Linux Storage | 2021-02-13 |
| Experimental Patches Allow For New Ioctls To Be Built Over IO_uring | Linux Kernel | 2021-01-27 |
| "core/entry" Is Exciting For Linux 5.11 With Two Big Changes | Linux Kernel | 2020-12-15 |
| IO_uring Passthrough For KVM Guests Is Yielding Fantastic Results | Linux Storage | 2020-11-01 |
| Linux 5.11 To Land Optimization That Helps IO_uring Performance | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-30 |
| Another Kernel Optimization Being Worked On That Can Help IO_uring Performance | Linux Kernel | 2020-10-01 |
| Intel Xeon Ice Lake, Gen2 Optane + Linux's IO_uring Yielding Up To 2.58M IOPS Per Core | Linux Storage | 2020-08-21 |
| IO_uring Has Many Improvements Set To Go Into Linux 5.9 | Linux Storage | 2020-08-03 |
| Async Buffered Reads Support Yielding Promising Results | Linux Storage | 2020-05-23 |
| IO_uring Sees More Improvements With Linux 5.7 For This Exciting I/O Tech | Linux Storage | 2020-03-30 |
| IO_uring Is More Polished With Linux 5.4 | Linux Kernel | 2019-09-28 |
| IO_uring Gets A Huge Performance Fix - Up To 755x Improvement | Linux Storage | 2019-07-21 |
| Linux Kernel Getting io_uring To Deliver Fast & Efficient I/O | Linux Kernel | 2019-02-14 |
| Linux 4.19.8 Released With BLK-MQ Fix To The Recent Data Corruption Bug | Linux Kernel | 2018-12-08 |
| The "EXT4 Corruption Issue" Has Been Fixed In Linux 4.20, Backport Pending To 4.19 | Linux Storage | 2018-12-05 |
| It's Looking Like The EXT4 Corruption Issue On Linux 4.19 Is Caused By BLK-MQ | Linux Storage | 2018-12-04 |
| The Next Linux Kernel Will Bring More Drivers Converted To Use BLK-MQ I/O | Linux Storage | 2018-10-16 |
| Kernel Developers Discuss Defaulting To BFQ For Some Storage Devices | Linux Storage | 2018-10-03 |
| BCache Gets New Maintainer, NVMe Improvements & More For Linux 4.15 | Linux Storage | 2017-11-15 |
| BFQ & CFQ Improvements Land In Linux 4.14 | Linux Storage | 2017-09-08 |
| Linux 4.13 Adding Write Hints To Allow For Better NVMe Performance | Linux Storage | 2017-07-03 |
| Block Updates Submitted For The Linux 4.11 Kernel | Linux Kernel | 2017-02-20 |
| Many Block Changes En Route To Linux 4.10 | Linux Storage | 2016-12-12 |
| NVMe Over Fabrics (NVMeF) & Other Block Improvements For Linux 4.8 | Linux Storage | 2016-07-26 |
| Async Discard Support Comes For Linux 4.7 | Linux Storage | 2016-05-17 |
| Linux 4.4 Getting Persistent Reservation API For Block Devices | Hardware | 2015-11-04 |
| LightNVM Support Is Going Into Linux 4.4 | Hardware | 2015-11-03 |
| EXT4 Updates Are Pretty Boring For Linux 4.3 | Linux Storage | 2015-09-03 |
| Linux 4.2 Will Tweak The CFQ Scheduler For SSDs To Offer Better Performance | Linux Kernel | 2015-06-06 |
| Linux 4.1 Has Improvements For The Multi-Queue Block Layer | Linux Kernel | 2015-04-17 |
| Blk-mq Gets Further Improved With Linux 3.19, NVME Gets Ported | Linux Kernel | 2014-12-14 |
| Blk-mq Is Almost Feature Complete & Fast With Linux 3.16 | Linux Kernel | 2014-06-02 |
| BCache, Blk-mq Changes Submitted For Linux 3.14 | Linux Kernel | 2014-01-28 |
| Linux Kernel Block Maintainer Joins Facebook | Free Software | 2014-01-24 |
