xfs: cache pages used for xfarray quicksort convergence

After quicksort picks a pivot item for a particular subsort, it walks
the records in that subset from the outside in, rearranging them so that

xfs: cache pages used for xfarray quicksort convergence

After quicksort picks a pivot item for a particular subsort, it walks
the records in that subset from the outside in, rearranging them so that
every record less than the pivot comes before it, and every record
greater than the pivot comes after it. This scan has a lot of locality,
so we can speed it up quite a bit by grabbing the xfile backing page and
holding onto it as long as we possibly can. Doing so reduces the
runtime by another 5% on the author's computer.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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xfs: teach xfile to pass back direct-map pages to caller

Certain xfile array operations (such as sorting) can be sped up quite a
bit by allowing xfile users to grab a page to bulk-read the records
c

xfs: teach xfile to pass back direct-map pages to caller

Certain xfile array operations (such as sorting) can be sped up quite a
bit by allowing xfile users to grab a page to bulk-read the records
contained within it. Create helper methods to facilitate this.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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xfs: create a big array data structure

Create a simple 'big array' data structure for storage of fixed-size
metadata records that will be used to reconstruct a btree index. For
repair operations, t

xfs: create a big array data structure

Create a simple 'big array' data structure for storage of fixed-size
metadata records that will be used to reconstruct a btree index. For
repair operations, the most important operations are append, iterate,
and sort.

Earlier implementations of the big array used linked lists and suffered
from severe problems -- pinning all records in kernel memory was not a
good idea and frequently lead to OOM situations; random access was very
inefficient; and record overhead for the lists was unacceptably high at
40-60%.

Therefore, the big memory array relies on the 'xfile' abstraction, which
creates a memfd file and stores the records in page cache pages. Since
the memfd is created in tmpfs, the memory pages can be pushed out to
disk if necessary and we have a built-in usage limit of 50% of physical
memory.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>

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