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At btrfs_drop_extents(), we try to replace a range of file extent items
with a new file extent in a single btree search, to avoid the need to do
a search for deletion, followed by a path release and followed by yet
another search for insertion.
When I originally added that optimization, in commit 1acae57b161ef1
("Btrfs: faster file extent item replace operations"), I left a constraint
to do the fast replace only if we visited a single leaf. That was because
in the most common case we find all file extent items that need to be
deleted (or trimmed) in a single leaf, however it can work for other
common cases like when we need to delete a few file extent items located
at the end of a leaf and a few more located at the beginning of the next
leaf. The key for the new file extent item is greater than the key of
any deleted or trimmed file extent item from previous leaves, so we are
fine to use the last leaf that we found as long as we are holding a
write lock on it - even if the new key ends up at slot 0, as if that's
the case, the btree search has obtained a write lock on any upper nodes
that need to have a key pointer updated.
So removed the constraint that limits the optimization to the case where
we visited only a single leaf.
This change if part of a patchset that is comprised of the following
patches:
1/6 btrfs: remove unnecessary leaf free space checks when pushing items
2/6 btrfs: avoid unnecessary COW of leaves when deleting items from a leaf
3/6 btrfs: avoid unnecessary computation when deleting items from a leaf
4/6 btrfs: remove constraint on number of visited leaves when replacing extents
5/6 btrfs: remove useless path release in the fast fsync path
6/6 btrfs: prepare extents to be logged before locking a log tree path
The last patch in the series has some performance test result in its
changelog.
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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