btrfs: send: cache information about created directories
During an incremental send, when processing the reference for an inode we need to check if the directory where the new reference is located was already created before creating the new reference. This check, which is done by the helper did_create_dir(), can be expensive if the directory has many entries, since it consists in searching the send root's b+tree and visiting every single dir index key until we either find one which points to an inode with a number smaller than the current inode's number or until we visited all index keys. So it doesn't scale well for very large directories. So improve on this by caching created directories using a lru cache, and limiting its size to 64 entries, which results in using at most 4096 bytes of memory. The caching is optional, if we fail to allocate memory, we just proceed as before and use the existing slower path. This patch is part of a larger patchset and the changelog of the last patch in the series contains a sample performance test and results. The patches that comprise the patchset are the following: btrfs: send: directly return from did_overwrite_ref() and simplify it btrfs: send: avoid unnecessary generation search at did_overwrite_ref() btrfs: send: directly return from will_overwrite_ref() and simplify it btrfs: send: avoid extra b+tree searches when checking reference overrides btrfs: send: remove send_progress argument from can_rmdir() btrfs: send: avoid duplicated orphan dir allocation and initialization btrfs: send: avoid unnecessary orphan dir rbtree search at can_rmdir() btrfs: send: reduce searches on parent root when checking if dir can be removed btrfs: send: iterate waiting dir move rbtree only once when processing refs btrfs: send: initialize all the red black trees earlier btrfs: send: genericize the backref cache to allow it to be reused btrfs: adapt lru cache to allow for 64 bits keys on 32 bits systems btrfs: send: cache information about created directories btrfs: allow a generation number to be associated with lru cache entries btrfs: add an api to delete a specific entry from the lru cache btrfs: send: use the lru cache to implement the name cache btrfs: send: update size of roots array for backref cache entries btrfs: send: cache utimes operations for directories if possible Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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