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Previously, block size was flexible based on the constraint that the GCD(PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE) > 1. However, this carried the overhead that keeping a floating number of populated free pages required scanning over the free regions of a chunk. Setting the block size to be fixed at PAGE_SIZE lets us know when an empty page becomes used as we will break a full contig_hint of a block. This means we no longer have to scan the whole chunk upon breaking a contig_hint which empty page management piggybacked off. A later patch takes advantage of this to optimize the allocation path by only scanning forward using the scan_hint introduced later too. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.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.