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    btrfs: allow a generation number to be associated with lru cache entries · 0da0c560
    Filipe Manana authored
    This allows an optional generation number to be associated to each entry
    of the lru cache. Entries with the same key but different generations, are
    stored in the linked list to which the maple tree points to. This is meant
    to be used when there's a small number of different generations, so the
    impact of searching a linked list is negligible. The goal is to get rid of
    the open coded name cache in the send code (which uses a radix tree and
    a similar linked list of values/entries) and use instead the lru cache
    module. For that particular use case we have at most 2 generations that
    are associated to each key (inode number): one generation for the send
    root and another generation for the parent root. The actual migration of
    the send name cache is done in the next patch in the series.
    
    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: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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