btrfs: send: skip unnecessary backref iterations
When looking for a clone source for an extent, we are iterating over all the backreferences for an extent. This is often a waste of time, because once we find a good clone source we could stop immediately instead of continuing backref walking, which is expensive. Basically what happens currently is this: 1) Call iterate_extent_inodes() to iterate over all the backreferences; 2) It calls btrfs_find_all_leafs() which in turn calls the main function to walk over backrefs and collect them - find_parent_nodes(); 3) Then we collect all the references for our target data extent from the extent tree (and delayed refs if any), add them to the rb trees, resolve all the indirect backreferences and search for all the file extent items in fs trees, building a list of inodes for each one of them (struct extent_inode_elem); 4) Then back at iterate_extent_inodes() we find all the roots associated to each found leaf, and call the callback __iterate_backrefs defined at send.c for each inode in the inode list associated to each leaf. Some times one the first backreferences we find in a fs tree is optimal to satisfy the clone operation that send wants to perform, and in that case we could stop immediately and avoid resolving all the remaining indirect backreferences (search fs trees for the respective file extent items, etc). This possibly if when we find a fs tree leaf with a file extent item we are able to know what are all the roots that can lead to the leaf - this is now possible after the previous patch in the series that adds a cache that maps leaves to a list of roots. So we can now shortcircuit backref walking during send, by having the callback we pass to iterate_extent_inodes() to be called when we find a file extent item for an indirect backreference, and have it return a special value when it found a suitable backreference and it does not need to look for more backreferences. This change does that. This change is part of a patchset comprised of the following patches: 01/17 btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at resolve_indirect_refs() 02/17 btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes() 03/17 btrfs: fix ulist leaks in error paths of qgroup self tests 04/17 btrfs: remove pointless and double ulist frees in error paths of qgroup tests 05/17 btrfs: send: avoid unnecessary path allocations when finding extent clone 06/17 btrfs: send: update comment at find_extent_clone() 07/17 btrfs: send: drop unnecessary backref context field initializations 08/17 btrfs: send: avoid unnecessary backref lookups when finding clone source 09/17 btrfs: send: optimize clone detection to increase extent sharing 10/17 btrfs: use a single argument for extent offset in backref walking functions 11/17 btrfs: use a structure to pass arguments to backref walking functions 12/17 btrfs: reuse roots ulist on each leaf iteration for iterate_extent_inodes() 13/17 btrfs: constify ulist parameter of ulist_next() 14/17 btrfs: send: cache leaf to roots mapping during backref walking 15/17 btrfs: send: skip unnecessary backref iterations 16/17 btrfs: send: avoid double extent tree search when finding clone source 17/17 btrfs: send: skip resolution of our own backref when finding clone source Performance test results are in the changelog of patch 17/17. Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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