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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/percpu-internal.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/percpu-internal.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/percpu-internal.h b/mm/percpu-internal.h index b1739dc06b73..ec58b244545d 100644 --- a/mm/percpu-internal.h +++ b/mm/percpu-internal.h @@ -9,8 +9,17 @@ * pcpu_block_md is the metadata block struct. * Each chunk's bitmap is split into a number of full blocks. * All units are in terms of bits. + * + * The scan hint is the largest known contiguous area before the contig hint. + * It is not necessarily the actual largest contig hint though. There is an + * invariant that the scan_hint_start > contig_hint_start iff + * scan_hint == contig_hint. This is necessary because when scanning forward, + * we don't know if a new contig hint would be better than the current one. */ struct pcpu_block_md { + int scan_hint; /* scan hint for block */ + int scan_hint_start; /* block relative starting + position of the scan hint */ int contig_hint; /* contig hint for block */ int contig_hint_start; /* block relative starting position of the contig hint */ |