FUSE Adds VirtIO-FS Multi-Queue For ~5x Performance Win With Linux 6.10
FUSE in Linux 6.10 adds FS-VERITY support as the kernel infrastructure for read-only file-based authenticity protection. FS-VERITY allows for transparent integrity and authenticity protection. FS-VERITY is already supported by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and Btrfs while now with Linux 6.10+ can also be used by FUSE file-systems. The initial FUSE motivation is on FS-VERITY support for VirtIO-FS.
The other notable addition for FUSE in Linux 6.10 is finally landing initial multi-queue support for VirtIO-FS. There have been efforts dating back years for VirtIO-FS multi-queue support and now it's finally upstream.
With making use of multiple queues, the VirtIO-FS file-system code can be up to 5~5.5x faster for read and write performance. NVIDIA's Peter-Jan Gootzen along with other NVIDIA engineers authored the support and tested with a BlueField-3 DPU on a Dell PowerEdge server. The boost with multi-queue support is huge:
Quite an exciting round of FUSE updates for the Linux 6.10 kernel.
Update: Peter-Jan Gootzen with NVIDIA has clarified that besides the VirtIO-FS driver now having multi-queue support, support is also needed from the VirtIO-FS device. The NVIDIA BlueField DPU does support this when it exposes a file-system as a host through VirtIO-FS. However, virtiofsd as the common software implementation does not support this feature.
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