buffer: Avoid setting buffer bits that are already set

It's expensive to set buffer flags that are already set, because that
causes a costly cache line transition.

A common case is setting the "verified" flag during ext4 writes.
This patch checks for the flag being set first.

With the AIM7/creat-clo benchmark testing on a 48G ramdisk based-on ext4
file system, we see 3.3%(15431->15936) improvement of aim7.jobs-per-min on
a 2-sockets broadwell platform.

What the benchmark does is: it forks 3000 processes, and each  process do
the following:
a) open a new file
b) close the file
c) delete the file
until loop=100*1000 times.

The original patch is contributed by Andi Kleen.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kemi Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kemi Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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