btrfs: send: avoid path allocation for the current inode when issuing commands

Whenever we issue a command we allocate a path and then compute it. For
the current inode this is not necessary since we have one preallocated
and computed in the send context structure, so we can use it instead
and avoid allocating and freeing a path.

For example if we have 100 extents to send (100 write commands) for a
file, we are allocating and freeing paths 100 times.

So improve on this by avoiding path allocation and freeing whenever a
command is for the current inode by using the current inode's path
stored in the send context structure.

A test was run before applying this patch and the previous one in the
series:

  "btrfs: send: keep the current inode's path cached"

The test script is the following:

  $ cat test.sh
  #!/bin/bash

  DEV=/dev/nullb0
  MNT=/mnt/nullb0

  mkfs.btrfs -f $DEV > /dev/null
  mount $DEV $MNT

  DIR="$MNT/one/two/three/four"
  FILE="$DIR/foobar"

  mkdir -p $DIR

  # Create some empty files to get a deeper btree and therefore make
  # path computations slower.
  for ((i = 1; i <= 30000; i++)); do
      echo -n > "$DIR/filler_$i"
  done

  for ((i = 0; i < 10000; i += 2)); do
     offset=$(( i * 4096 ))
     xfs_io -f -c "pwrite -S 0xab $offset 4K" $FILE > /dev/null
  done

  btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $MNT $MNT/snap

  start=$(date +%s%N)
  btrfs send -f /dev/null $MNT/snap
  end=$(date +%s%N)

  echo -e "\nsend took $(( (end - start) / 1000000 )) milliseconds"

  umount $MNT

Result before applying the 2 patches:  1121 milliseconds
Result after applying the 2 patches:    815 milliseconds  (-31.6%)

Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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