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In the old allocator code, buckets would be discarded just prior to being used - this made sense in bcache where we were discarding buckets just after invalidating the cached data they contain, but in a filesystem where we typically have more free space we want to be discarding buckets when they become empty. This patch implements the new behaviour - it checks the need_discard btree for buckets awaiting discards, and then clears the appropriate bit in the alloc btree, which moves the buckets to the freespace btree. Additionally, discards are now enabled by default. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Linux kernel
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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
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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.