It's actually quite disappointing to see that the Linux kernel performance essentially never increased over 5 years. A lot of nice functionality was added, so at least the lack of a net loss is quite fantastic.<p>I wonder if this report might give the kernel folks the boost they need to be truly innovative moving forward.
the choice of some of these benchmarks is weird. they have a bunch of cpu-bound benchmarks. why exactly would you expect these to change as the kernel changed? (i would expect changing compiler to have a bigger influence.)<p>the ones that do change (and improve mostly) are ones where the kernel actually plays a role--file system, network, etc.<p>the iozone benchmark is a bit surprising, it shows no improvement. but they are hitting 200MB/s, so i wonder if this is simply because linux is hitting the max speed of the disk.<p>all in all, not very useful.
Simple way to get me to NOT read your article: give it a flash-based popup-ad and split the article into 8 separate pages. I just want to see the data. Fail.