Linux Kernel 7.2 Launched

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented kernel release Linux 7.2

After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented kernel release Linux 7.2. Notable changes include: USB4STREAM streaming engine, GPU resource allocation scheduler, btrfs, xfs and ext4 performance optimizations, continued code removal for i486 CPU support, ability to create nested SCHED_EXT schedulers, reduced paging memory consumption, accelerated unnamed pipes, support for Intel MBEC and AMD GMET extensions in KVM, removal of AppleTalk protocol, initial HDMI support 2.1 FRL in the AMDGPU driver.

Main innovations in kernel 7.2 (1, 2, 3):

• Disk subsystem, input/output and file systems
  • In the iomap mechanism removed the unnecessary call to the memset function for already completed
    iterations in the iomap_iter() function, which, with high I/O intensity on fast NVMe drives, increased the number of input/output operations per second (IOPS) in tests by 5% when using ext4 and xfs file systems.
  • In XFS support for zoned storage devices has been announced as stable (dividing groups of blocks or sectors into zones, into which only sequential addition of data is allowed with updating the entire group of blocks