xfs: fix inobt inode allocation search optimization
authorOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Fri, 11 Aug 2017 16:00:06 +0000 (09:00 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 11 Nov 2017 13:34:29 +0000 (13:34 +0000)
commitfa992618a7e9301b9d894683542794c461fc6a91
treed44cd59a27d5d1c5264900d4278b660d3c66b212
parent25f8872127547bc3162ab5914f289c2675f83f0c
xfs: fix inobt inode allocation search optimization

commit c44245b3d5435f533ca8346ece65918f84c057f9 upstream.

When we try to allocate a free inode by searching the inobt, we try to
find the inode nearest the parent inode by searching chunks both left
and right of the chunk containing the parent. As an optimization, we
cache the leftmost and rightmost records that we previously searched; if
we do another allocation with the same parent inode, we'll pick up the
search where it last left off.

There's a bug in the case where we found a free inode to the left of the
parent's chunk: we need to update the cached left and right records, but
because we already reassigned the right record to point to the left, we
end up assigning the left record to both the cached left and right
records.

This isn't a correctness problem strictly, but it can result in the next
allocation rechecking chunks unnecessarily or allocating inodes further
away from the parent than it needs to. Fix it by swapping the record
pointer after we update the cached left and right records.

Fixes: bd169565993b ("xfs: speed up free inode search")
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/xfs/xfs_ialloc.c