Andreas Gruenbacher
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With the traditional page-based writes, blocks are allocated separately for each page written to. With iomap writes, we can allocate a lot more blocks at once, with a fraction of the allocation overhead for each page. Split calculating the number of blocks that can be allocated at a given position (gfs2_alloc_size) off from gfs2_iomap_alloc: that size determines the number of blocks to allocate and reserve in the journal. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.