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Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system.
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system. - Add a helper to properly set the max folio order Currently due to several call sites are fetching the bitmap content directly into an unsigned long, we can only support BITS_PER_LONG blocks for each bitmap. Although I believe there are still quite some optimizations to be done, let's focus on testing the current large data folio support first."
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