In nocow path, we check if the extent is snapshotted in
btrfs_cross_ref_exist(). We can do the similar check earlier and avoid
unnecessary search into extent tree.

A fio test on a Intel D-1531, 16GB RAM, SSD RAID-5 machine as follows:

[global]
group_reporting
time_based
thread=1
ioengine=libaio
bs=4k
iodepth=32
size=64G
runtime=180
numjobs=8
rw=randwrite

[file1]
filename=/mnt/nocow/testfile

IOPS result:   unpatched     patched

1 fio round:     46670        46958
snapshot
2 fio round:     51826        54498
3 fio round:     59767        61289

After snapshot, the first fio get about 5% performance gain. As we
continually write to the same file, all writes will resume to nocow mode
and eventually we have no performance gain.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Lien <ethanl...@synology.com>
---

V2:
 Add comment and performance test.

 fs/btrfs/inode.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index d241285a0d2a..177630337108 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -1373,6 +1373,13 @@ static noinline int run_delalloc_nocow(struct inode 
*inode,
                            btrfs_file_extent_encryption(leaf, fi) ||
                            btrfs_file_extent_other_encoding(leaf, fi))
                                goto out_check;
+                       /*
+                        * We can skip the checking of generation of
+                        * extent item in btrfs_cross_ref_exist().
+                        */
+                       if (btrfs_file_extent_generation(leaf, fi) <=
+                           btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item))
+                               goto out_check;
                        if (extent_type == BTRFS_FILE_EXTENT_REG && !force)
                                goto out_check;
                        if (btrfs_extent_readonly(fs_info, disk_bytenr))
@@ -7368,6 +7375,14 @@ noinline int can_nocow_extent(struct inode *inode, u64 
offset, u64 *len,
            btrfs_file_extent_other_encoding(leaf, fi))
                goto out;
 
+       /*
+        * We can skip the checking of generation of
+        * extent item in btrfs_cross_ref_exist().
+        */
+       if (btrfs_file_extent_generation(leaf, fi) <=
+           btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&root->root_item))
+               goto out;
+
        backref_offset = btrfs_file_extent_offset(leaf, fi);
 
        if (orig_start) {
-- 
2.17.0

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