Btrfs Zstd Compression Benchmarks On Linux 4.14

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 13 November 2017 at 03:55 PM EST. Page 4 of 4. 24 Comments.
Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression

The threaded I/O tester with Btrfs compression led to slower performance.

Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression

While in Dbench, the compressed results were all about the same speed.

Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression
Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression
Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression

LZO and Zstd were the fastest with FS-Mark.

Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression

The same with CompileBench.

Btrfs Zstd Linux 4.14 Compression

Over the course of all these I/O benchmarks executed, the CPU utilization of Btrfs LZO/Zlib/Zstd compression ended up being right around the same as Btrfs running out-of-the-box, for this Core i7 Broadwell CPU.

Overall, among the Btrfs compression options, Zstd is performing very well. Keep in mind though with I/O benchmarks, the data tends to be easily compressible compared to more real-world and unique data-sets. It will also be interesting to see how the Btrfs compression performance compares on Linux 4.15 where there is configurable Zlib compression levels and also improvements around the overall Btrfs compression heuristics.

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