percpu: add block level scan_hint

Fragmentation can cause both blocks and chunks to have an early
first_firee bit available, but only able to satisfy allocations much
later on. This patch introduces a scan_hint to help mitigate some
unnecessary scanning.

The scan_hint remembers the largest area prior to the contig_hint. If
the contig_hint == scan_hint, then scan_hint_start > contig_hint_start.
This is necessary for scan_hint discovery when refreshing a block.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <[email protected]>
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Dennis Zhou 2019-02-25 13:41:45 -08:00
commit 382b88e961
2 changed files with 103 additions and 7 deletions

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* 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 */