Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More
Summary
Phoronix reports on the Linux 7.2 kernel merge that pre-allocates pages for anon_pipe_write to reduce mutex contention in anonymous pipes, improving throughput and latency for shell pipelines. The optimization shows notable gains across workloads and is documented with patch details, with the change now merged for Linux 7.2.