[PATCH 1/3] libceph: allocate ceph messages with a slab allocator

[Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Create a slab cache to manage ceph_msg structure allocation.

This is part of:
    http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/3926

Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ceph/messenger.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c
index 91dd451..bc1ba4c 100644
--- a/net/ceph/messenger.c
+++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c
@@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ static bool con_flag_test_and_set(struct
ceph_connection *con,
 	return test_and_set_bit(con_flag, &con->flags);
 }

+/* Slab caches for frequently-allocated structures */
+
+static struct kmem_cache	*ceph_msg_cache;
+
 /* static tag bytes (protocol control messages) */
 static char tag_msg = CEPH_MSGR_TAG_MSG;
 static char tag_ack = CEPH_MSGR_TAG_ACK;
@@ -226,6 +230,22 @@ static void encode_my_addr(struct ceph_messenger *msgr)
  */
 static struct workqueue_struct *ceph_msgr_wq;

+static int ceph_msgr_slab_init(void)
+{
+	BUG_ON(ceph_msg_cache);
+	ceph_msg_cache = kmem_cache_create("ceph_msg",
+					sizeof (struct ceph_msg),
+					__alignof__(struct ceph_msg), 0, NULL);
+	return ceph_msg_cache ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static void ceph_msgr_slab_exit(void)
+{
+	BUG_ON(!ceph_msg_cache);
+	kmem_cache_destroy(ceph_msg_cache);
+	ceph_msg_cache = NULL;
+}
+
 static void _ceph_msgr_exit(void)
 {
 	if (ceph_msgr_wq) {
@@ -233,6 +253,8 @@ static void _ceph_msgr_exit(void)
 		ceph_msgr_wq = NULL;
 	}

+	ceph_msgr_slab_exit();
+
 	BUG_ON(zero_page == NULL);
 	kunmap(zero_page);
 	page_cache_release(zero_page);
@@ -245,6 +267,9 @@ int ceph_msgr_init(void)
 	zero_page = ZERO_PAGE(0);
 	page_cache_get(zero_page);

+	if (ceph_msgr_slab_init())
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	ceph_msgr_wq = alloc_workqueue("ceph-msgr", WQ_NON_REENTRANT, 0);
 	if (ceph_msgr_wq)
 		return 0;
@@ -3068,7 +3093,7 @@ struct ceph_msg *ceph_msg_new(int type, int
front_len, gfp_t flags,
 {
 	struct ceph_msg *m;

-	m = kzalloc(sizeof(*m), flags);
+	m = kmem_cache_zalloc(ceph_msg_cache, flags);
 	if (m == NULL)
 		goto out;

@@ -3215,7 +3240,7 @@ void ceph_msg_kfree(struct ceph_msg *m)
 		vfree(m->front.iov_base);
 	else
 		kfree(m->front.iov_base);
-	kfree(m);
+	kmem_cache_free(ceph_msg_cache, m);
 }

 /*
-- 
1.7.9.5

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