Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain

Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain

A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it’s a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-No-Serialize-Direct-IO