Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
My initial testing of the Linux 7.1 development kernel on various systems in the lab continues going well
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Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 30 April 2026 at 08:23 AM EDT. Add A Comment My initial testing of the Linux 7.1 development kernel on various systems in the lab continues going well. Aside from one main regression in a synthetic micro-benchmark appearing on multiple systems, not seeing much in the way of Linux 7.1 performance concerns thus far and seeing some nice performance gains in select workloads. Last week I shared some early Linux 7.1 benchmarks on an EPYC server with wins for the likes of Pogocache, Memcached, Cockroach DB, and various networking tests. The main regression observed there was with the Futex micro-benchmark of Stress-NG when comparing Linux 7.0 and Linux 7.1-rc1.
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