Jens Axboe
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Caches like this tend to grow to the peak size, and then never get any smaller. Impose a max limit on the size, to prevent it from growing too big. A somewhat randomly chosen 512 is the max size we'll allow the cache to get. If a batch of frees come in and would bring it over that, we simply start kfree'ing the surplus. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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 Restructured Text 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.