diff --git a/.changelog/unreleased/improvements/2986-lower-memory-allocation-in-packet-writing.md b/.changelog/unreleased/improvements/2986-lower-memory-allocation-in-packet-writing.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d26279880
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/unreleased/improvements/2986-lower-memory-allocation-in-packet-writing.md
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+- `[p2p/conn]` Speedup connection.WritePacketMsgTo, by reusing internal buffers rather than re-allocating.
+  ([\#2986](https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/pull/2986))
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b9147c5cf..a7ad0523e1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
-## Unreleased
+## v0.37.4-v25-osmo-6
 
 * [#83](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/cometbft/pull/83)  perf(types): 3x speedup MakePartSet (#3117)
 * [#85](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/cometbft/pull/85)  perf(flowrate): Speedup flowrate.Clock (#3016)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 * [#91](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/cometbft/pull/91)  perf(consensus): Minor improvement by making add vote only do one peer set mutex call, not 3 (#3156)
 * [#93](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/cometbft/pull/93)  perf(consensus): Make some consensus reactor messages take RLock's not WLock's (#3159)
 * [#95](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/cometbft/pull/95)  perf(types) Make a new method `GetByAddressMut` for `ValSet`, which does not copy the returned validator. (#3129)
+* [#97](https://github.com/osmosis-labs/cometbft/pull/97)   perf(p2p/connection): Lower wasted re-allocations in sendRoutine (#2986)
 
 
 ## v0.37.4-v25-osmo-5
diff --git a/p2p/conn/connection.go b/p2p/conn/connection.go
index 81201ac05e..5f1343d2c7 100644
--- a/p2p/conn/connection.go
+++ b/p2p/conn/connection.go
@@ -282,9 +282,10 @@ func (c *MConnection) FlushStop() {
 		// Send and flush all pending msgs.
 		// Since sendRoutine has exited, we can call this
 		// safely
-		eof := c.sendSomePacketMsgs()
+		w := protoio.NewDelimitedWriter(c.bufConnWriter)
+		eof := c.sendSomePacketMsgs(w)
 		for !eof {
-			eof = c.sendSomePacketMsgs()
+			eof = c.sendSomePacketMsgs(w)
 		}
 		c.flush()
 
@@ -474,7 +475,7 @@ FOR_LOOP:
 			break FOR_LOOP
 		case <-c.send:
 			// Send some PacketMsgs
-			eof := c.sendSomePacketMsgs()
+			eof := c.sendSomePacketMsgs(protoWriter)
 			if !eof {
 				// Keep sendRoutine awake.
 				select {
@@ -501,18 +502,18 @@ FOR_LOOP:
 
 // Returns true if messages from channels were exhausted.
 // Blocks in accordance to .sendMonitor throttling.
-func (c *MConnection) sendSomePacketMsgs() bool {
+func (c *MConnection) sendSomePacketMsgs(w protoio.Writer) bool {
 	// Block until .sendMonitor says we can write.
 	// Once we're ready we send more than we asked for,
 	// but amortized it should even out.
 	c.sendMonitor.Limit(c._maxPacketMsgSize, c.config.SendRate, true)
 
 	// Now send some PacketMsgs.
-	return c.sendBatchPacketMsgs(numBatchPacketMsgs)
+	return c.sendBatchPacketMsgs(w, numBatchPacketMsgs)
 }
 
 // Returns true if messages from channels were exhausted.
-func (c *MConnection) sendBatchPacketMsgs(batchSize int) bool {
+func (c *MConnection) sendBatchPacketMsgs(w protoio.Writer, batchSize int) bool {
 	// Send a batch of PacketMsgs.
 	for i := 0; i < batchSize; i++ {
 		channel := selectChannelToGossipOn(c.channels)
@@ -520,7 +521,7 @@ func (c *MConnection) sendBatchPacketMsgs(batchSize int) bool {
 		if channel == nil {
 			return true
 		}
-		err := c.sendPacketMsgOnChannel(channel)
+		err := c.sendPacketMsgOnChannel(w, channel)
 		if err {
 			return true
 		}
@@ -555,11 +556,9 @@ func selectChannelToGossipOn(channels []*Channel) *Channel {
 	return leastChannel
 }
 
-func (c *MConnection) sendPacketMsgOnChannel(sendChannel *Channel) bool {
-	// c.Logger.Info("Found a msgPacket to send")
-
+func (c *MConnection) sendPacketMsgOnChannel(w protoio.Writer, sendChannel *Channel) bool {
 	// Make & send a PacketMsg from this channel
-	_n, err := sendChannel.writePacketMsgTo(c.bufConnWriter)
+	_n, err := sendChannel.writePacketMsgTo(w)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.Logger.Error("Failed to write PacketMsg", "err", err)
 		c.stopForError(err)
@@ -862,12 +861,15 @@ func (ch *Channel) nextPacketMsg() tmp2p.PacketMsg {
 }
 
 // Writes next PacketMsg to w and updates c.recentlySent.
-// Not goroutine-safe
-func (ch *Channel) writePacketMsgTo(w io.Writer) (n int, err error) {
+// Not goroutine-safe.
+func (ch *Channel) writePacketMsgTo(w protoio.Writer) (n int, err error) {
 	packet := ch.nextPacketMsg()
-	n, err = protoio.NewDelimitedWriter(w).WriteMsg(mustWrapPacket(&packet))
+	n, err = w.WriteMsg(mustWrapPacket(&packet))
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
 	atomic.AddInt64(&ch.recentlySent, int64(n))
-	return
+	return n, nil
 }
 
 // Handles incoming PacketMsgs. It returns a message bytes if message is