Commit 668c965af "journal: skipping of exhausted journal files is bad if
direction changed" fixed a correctness issue, but it also significantly
limited the cases where the optimization that skips exhausted journal
files could apply.
As a result, some journalctl queries are much slower in v219 than in v218.
(e.g. queries where a "--since" cutoff should have quickly eliminated
older journal files from consideration, but didn't.)
If already in the initial iteration find_location_with_matches() finds
no entry, the journal file's location is not updated. This is fine,
except that:
- We must update at least f->last_direction. The optimization relies on
it. Let's separate that from journal_file_save_location() and update
it immediately after the direction checks.
- The optimization was conditional on "f->current_offset > 0", but it
would always be 0 in this scenario. This check is unnecessary for the
optimization.
Michal Schmidt
950c07d421