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by robinanil 3067 days ago
Do you have updates on how the performance is on 4.x kernel versions?
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Yes and no. I have all sorts of test results for the 4.x kernel, but they are for i3 instances rather than i2.*, so they wouldn't be directly comparable. Your question kind of makes me think I should put together an updated version of this talk; I've gathered enough material over the last couple of years that would probably be useful to somebody.
Yes, that would be useful. 4.x kernels has some block io improvements and some recent phoronix benchmark shows ext4 making huge strides.
This was my first thought, kernel 3.x is more than a little dated now and there is a huge amount of IO performance and latency related changes that have been incorporated since the 3.x days.