Commit a4eac4fd authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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btrfs: send: keep the current inode's path cached



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Whenever we need to send a command for the current inode, like sending
writes, xattr updates, truncates, utimes, etc, we compute the inode's
path each time, which implies doing some memory allocations and traversing
the inode hierarchy to extract the name of the inode and each ancestor
directory, and that implies doing lookups in the subvolume tree amongst
other operations.

Most of the time, by far, the current inode's path doesn't change while
we are processing it (like if we need to issue 100 write commands, the
path remains the same and it's pointless to compute it 100 times).

To avoid this keep the current inode's path cached in the send context
and invalidate it or update it whenever it's needed (after unlinks or
renames).

A performance test, and its results, is mentioned in the next patch in
the series (subject: "btrfs: send: avoid path allocation for the current
inode when issuing commands").

Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Stable-dep-of: 005b0a0c ("btrfs: send: use fallocate for hole punching with send stream v2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent eb38777a
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