Queued up via the FUSE "for-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance.

For those making use of a FUSE-based file-system for file-systems in user-space, with the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel you may see better performance. Red Hat's Miklos Szeredi has increased the buffer size for readdir to match the count requested by user-space. In turn this should improve performance but no specific performance numbers were shared as part of the commit message.

[1]The patch is queued in FUSE for-next and thus expected for the Linux 6.16 merge window barring any last minute issues from being reported.



[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=65107cbe9585f82a65857c35838905e12cd9f779