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The btree write buffer takes as input keys from the journal, sorts them, deduplicates them, and flushes them back to the btree in sorted order. The disk space accounting rewrite is moving accounting to normal btree keys, with update (in this case deltas) accumulated in the write buffer and then flushed to the btree; but this is going to increase the number of keys handled by the write buffer by perhaps as much as a factor of 3x-5x. The overhead from copying around and sorting this many keys would cause a significant performance regression, but: there is huge locality in updates to accounting keys that we can take advantage of. Instead of appending accounting keys to the list of keys to be sorted, this patch adds an eytzinger search tree of recently seen accounting keys. We look up the accounting key in the eytzinger search tree and apply the delta directly, adding it if it doesn't exist, and periodically prune the eytzinger tree of unused entries. 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.