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Main part of the disk accounting rewrite. This is a wholesale rewrite of the existing disk space accounting, which relies on percepu counters that are sharded by journal buffer, and rolled up and added to each journal write. With the new scheme, every set of counters is a distinct key in the accounting btree; this fixes scaling limitations of the old scheme, where counters took up space in each journal entry and required multiple percpu counters. Now, in memory accounting requires a single set of percpu counters - not multiple for each in flight journal buffer - and in the future we'll probably also have counters that don't use in memory percpu counters, they're not strictly required. An accounting update is now a normal btree update, using the btree write buffer path. At transaction commit time, we apply accounting updates to the in memory counters, which are percpu counters indexed in an eytzinger tree by the accounting key. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
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 reStructuredText 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.