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The near mode bnobt scan searches left and right in the bnobt looking for the closest free extent to the allocation hint that satisfies minlen. Once such an extent is found, the left/right search terminates, we search one more time in the opposite direction and finish the allocation with the best overall extent. The left/right and find best searches are currently controlled via a combination of cursor state and local variables. Clean up this code and prepare for further improvements to the near mode fallback algorithm by reusing the allocation cursor best extent tracking mechanism. Update the tracking logic to deactivate bnobt cursors when out of allocation range and replace open-coded extent checks to calls to the common helper. In doing so, rename some misnamed local variables in the top-level near mode allocation function. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.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.