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Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost


The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle

The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. The performance benefits to using LOCALIO have been described as "extreme" in the documentation and demonstrated as a more than 10x improvement for 4K reads while having many libaio threads. The LOCALIO protocol extension support was merged for Linux 6.12 as part of the NFS client updates along with introducing a new "noalignwrites" mount option for lock-less lost writes prevention.

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