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Currently, ext4_mb_prefetch() and ext4_mb_prefetch_fini() skip BLOCK_UNINIT groups since fetching their bitmaps doesn't need disk IO. As a consequence, we end not initializing the buddy structures and CR0/1 lists for these BGs, even though it can be done without any disk IO overhead. Hence, don't skip such BGs during prefetch and prefetch_fini. This improves the accuracy of CR0/1 allocation as earlier, we could have essentially empty BLOCK_UNINIT groups being ignored by CR0/1 due to their buddy not being initialized, leading to slower CR2 allocations. With this patch CR0/1 will be able to discover these groups as well, thus improving performance. Signed-off-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dc3130b8daf45ffe63d8a3c1edcf00eb8ba70e1f.1685449706.git.ojaswin@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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.