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Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17
With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching
An experimental configuration option is introduced for enabling large folios for data that has the potential of enhancing Btrfs performance. Btrfs now caches lookup results of the free space bitmap for around a 20% runtime improvement on an empty file creation benchmark. More details on these Btrfs feature additions and performance improvements that have been readied for Linux 6.17 via this pull request.
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