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NeilBrown authored
For each active region corresponding to a bit in the bitmap with have a 14bit counter (and some flags). This counts number of active writes + bit in the on-disk bitmap + delay-needed. The "delay-needed" is because we always want a delay before clearing a bit. So the number here is normally number of active writes plus 2. If there have been no writes for a while, we drop to 1. If still no writes we clear the bit and drop to 0. So for consistency, when setting bit from the on-disk bitmap or by request from user-space it is best to set the counter to '2' to start with. In particular we might also set the NEEDED_MASK flag at this time, and in all other cases NEEDED_MASK is only set when the counter is 2 or more. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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