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During fiemap, when determining if a data extent is shared or not, if we
don't find the extent is directly shared, then we need to determine if
it's shared through subtrees. For that we need to resolve the indirect
reference we found in order to figure out the path in the inode's fs tree,
which is a path starting at the fs tree's root node and going down to the
leaf that contains the file extent item that points to the data extent.
We then proceed to determine if any extent buffer in that path is shared
with other trees or not.

However when the generation of the data extent is more recent than the
last generation used to snapshot the root, we don't need to determine
the path, since the data extent can not be shared through snapshots.
For this case we currently still determine the leaf of that path (at
find_parent_nodes(), but then stop determining the other nodes in the
path (at btrfs_is_data_extent_shared()) as it's pointless.

So do the check of the data extent's generation earlier, at
find_parent_nodes(), before trying to resolve the indirect reference to
determine the leaf in the path. This saves us from doing one expensive
b+tree search in the fs tree of our target inode, as well as other minor
work.

The following test was run on a non-debug kernel (Debian's default kernel
config):

   $ cat test-fiemap.sh
   #!/bin/bash

   DEV=/dev/sdi
   MNT=/mnt/sdi

   umount $DEV &> /dev/null
   mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV
   # Use compression to quickly create files with a lot of extents
   # (each with a size of 128K).
   mount -o compress=lzo $DEV $MNT

   # 40G gives 327680 extents, each with a size of 128K.
   xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xab -b 1M 0 40G" $MNT/foobar

   # Add some more files to increase the size of the fs and extent
   # trees (in the real world there's a lot of files and extents
   # from other files).
   xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xcd -b 1M 0 20G" $MNT/file1
   xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xef -b 1M 0 20G" $MNT/file2
   xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0x73 -b 1M 0 20G" $MNT/file3

   umount $MNT
   mount -o compress=lzo $DEV $MNT

   start=$(date +%s%N)
   filefrag $MNT/foobar
   end=$(date +%s%N)
   dur=$(( (end - start) / 1000000 ))
   echo "fiemap took $dur milliseconds (metadata not cached)"
   echo

   start=$(date +%s%N)
   filefrag $MNT/foobar
   end=$(date +%s%N)
   dur=$(( (end - start) / 1000000 ))
   echo "fiemap took $dur milliseconds (metadata cached)"

   umount $MNT

Before applying this patch:

   (...)
   /mnt/sdi/foobar: 327680 extents found
   fiemap took 1285 milliseconds (metadata not cached)

   /mnt/sdi/foobar: 327680 extents found
   fiemap took 742 milliseconds (metadata cached)

After applying this patch:

   (...)
   /mnt/sdi/foobar: 327680 extents found
   fiemap took 689 milliseconds (metadata not cached)

   /mnt/sdi/foobar: 327680 extents found
   fiemap took 393 milliseconds (metadata cached)

That's a -46.4% total reduction for the metadata not cached case, and
a -47.0% reduction for the cached metadata case.

The test is somewhat limited in the sense the gains may be higher in
practice, because in the test the filesystem is small, so we have small
fs and extent trees, plus there's no concurrent access to the trees as
well, therefore no lock contention there.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>