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    md/bitmap: be more consistent when setting new bits in memory bitmap. · 915c420d
    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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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