Article 6XYBH [$] Parallelizing filesystem writeback

[$] Parallelizing filesystem writeback

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Writeback for filesystems is the process of flushing the "dirty" (written)data in the page cache to storage. At the 2025 Linux Storage,Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Anuj Gupta led acombined storage and filesystem session on some work that has been doneto parallelize the writeback process. Some of the performance problemsthat have been seen with the existing single-threaded writeback came up ina session at last year's summit, where theidea of doing writeback in parallel was discussed.
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