New Linux Patch Improved NVMe Performance +15% With CPU Cluster-Aware Handling

Posted by bob on Jan 21, 2026 2:51 AM EDT
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Intel Linux engineers have been working on enhancing the NVMe storage performance with today's high core count processors. Due to situations where multiple CPUs could end up sharing the same NVMe IRQ(s), performance penalties can arise if the IRQ affinity and the CPU's cluster do not align. There is a pending patch to address this situation. A 15% performance improvement was reported with the pending patch...

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