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Previously, bucket fragmentation was considered to be bucket size - total amount of live data, both dirty and cached. This meant that if a bucket was full but only a small amount of data in it was dirty - the rest cached, we'd get stuck: copygc wouldn't move the dirty data out of the bucket and the allocator wouldn't be able to invalidate and drop the cached data. This changes fragmentation to exclude cached data, so that copygc will evacuate these buckets and copygc/the allocator will always be able to make forward progress. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.