Collabora's Devs to Bring Performance Improvements to Emulated NVMe Devices

We reported earlier this month that Collabora's developers contributed patches to the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel to bring the open source Intel graphics driver on par with its Windows equivalent.

And now Softpedia was informed by Collabora's Mark Filion about some other interesting patches contributed by Collabora's developers to the upcoming Linux 4.8 kernel. These patches promise to add huge performance improvements to emulated NVMe devices.

According to Collabora's Helen Fornazier, it would appear that it's currently possible to attach a local SSD (Solid State Drive) disk drive to a virtual machine in Google Cloud Engine (GCE) via an NVMe interface, but you won't get a good number of IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second).

To achieve that, one needs to instantiate a virtual machine using the nvme-backports-debian-7-wheezy imag...