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Earlier this week was an exciting look at [2]Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.

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I continue trying out the [4]Linux 7.2 development kernel on more systems and overall in good success. Linux 7.2 is working its way toward a stable release in the second half of August and brings with [5]its many new features and changes . Linux 7.2 is all the more important with being the default kernel for the likes of Ubuntu 26.10.

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My latest Linux 7.2 tests to share are from benchmarking Linux 7.1 stable against a recent Linux 7.2 Git snapshot with the same Kconfig on an AMD EPYC 9455P 48-core server.

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This AMD EPYC 9455P server was built off the [8]Supermicro H13SSL-N platform and for storage was a single SAMSUNG PM1743 MZWLO3T8HCLS-00A07 PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid state drive. This EPYC 9455P server was running with 12 x 64GB DDR5-6000 memory and running Ubuntu 26.04 as the base operating system with the mentioned Linux 7.1/7.2 kernels being compared.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=linux-72-epyc-9455p&image=linux72_epyc_turin_1_lrg

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-panther-lake

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=linux-72-epyc-9455p&image=linux72_epyc_turin_2_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+7.2

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-features

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=linux-72-epyc-9455p&image=linux72_epyc_turin_3_lrg

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=linux-72-epyc-9455p&image=linux72_epyc_turin_4_lrg

[8] https://www.phoronix.com/review/supermicro-h13ssln-epyc-turin