Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 25 August 2026 at 10:18 AM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 28 Comments.
ClickHouse benchmark with settings of 100M Rows Hits Dataset, Latency, Second Run. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.

Wkith the real-world ClickHouse database benchmark, the Btrfs improvements in Linux 7.3 did translate to some modest improvements over Linux 7.2 in the stock mount options, CoW included.

TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 1. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 1. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 1. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 4. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 4. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 4. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 8. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 8. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.
TigerBeetle benchmark with settings of Clients: 8. Linux 7.3 23 Aug was the fastest.

The TigerBeetle financial transactions database was seeing some absolutely wild improvements moving from Linux 7.2 to Linux 7.3 with Btrfs. Much higher throughput and lower latency with Linux 7.3 on Btrfs.

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