commit 3932a86b4b9d1f0b049d64d4591ce58ad18b44ec upstream.

While debugging timeouts happening in my application workload (ScyllaDB), I have
observed calls to open() taking a long time, ranging everywhere from 2 seconds -
the first ones that are enough to time out my application - to more than 30
seconds.

The problem seems to happen because XFS may block on pending metadata updates
under certain circumnstances, and that's confirmed with the following backtrace
taken by the offcputime tool (iovisor/bcc):

    ffffffffb90c57b1 finish_task_switch
    ffffffffb97dffb5 schedule
    ffffffffb97e310c schedule_timeout
    ffffffffb97e1f12 __down
    ffffffffb90ea821 down
    ffffffffc046a9dc xfs_buf_lock
    ffffffffc046abfb _xfs_buf_find
    ffffffffc046ae4a xfs_buf_get_map
    ffffffffc046babd xfs_buf_read_map
    ffffffffc0499931 xfs_trans_read_buf_map
    ffffffffc044a561 xfs_da_read_buf
    ffffffffc0451390 xfs_dir3_leaf_read.constprop.16
    ffffffffc0452b90 xfs_di...