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… Using an Intel Xeon 678X HP Z4 G6i system running Fedora 44, I ran a few PHP benchmarks to satisfy the Phoronix Premium supporter request. After all, Phoronix Premium is the leading way to help the site continue operations. …
… This drastically reduces lock contention; high client count dbench particularly benefited. - Multithreaded btree write-buffer flushing saw more improvements, reducing stalls due to lock inversion, and runtime introspection was greatly improved." Hopefully time at Phoronix will allow for some new Li… …
… The patches introducing huge folios for Btrfs have made it into David Sterba's kdave/linux.git's for-next Git branch . With the work now in the Btrfs' "for-next" Git branch, they should be submitted as part of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window.
… Back in Linux 6.17, Btrfs introduced experimental support for large folios as the ability to help out Btrfs performance by some single digit percentage improvements for real-world workloads. …
… Harmstone explained with the change : "Before btrfs switched to the new mount API in 2023, we were setting SB NOSEC in btrfs mount root . …
… There was a separate pull request today as well containing the other Btrfs fixes for the week. …
… For those using Wild on a Btrfs file-system or VFAT , the linker will now default to "--no-mmap-output-file" for better performance. …
… Back in Linux 6.19, Btrfs added an experimental shutdown ioctl . The Btrfs shutdown ioctl is used to set the file-system state as shutdown and for pending operations to attempt to finish them on time and halt. …
… Biggers has been working through an AVX-512 version of xor gen to help with Linux software RAID performance and the like, that function is also used by some Linux file-systems directly like Btrfs too. …