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sbitmap maintains a set of words that we use to set and clear bits, with each bit representing a tag for blk-mq. Even though we spread the bits out and maintain a hint cache, one particular bit allocated will end up being cleared in the exact same spot. This introduces batched clearing of bits. Instead of clearing a given bit, the same bit is set in a cleared/free mask instead. If we fail allocating a bit from a given word, then we check the free mask, and batch move those cleared bits at that time. This trades 64 atomic bitops for 2 cmpxchg(). In a threaded poll test case, half the overhead of getting and clearing tags is removed with this change. On another poll test case with a single thread, performance is unchanged. Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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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.