Don't kfree requests in __io_free_req() but put them back into the internal request cache. That makes allocations more sustainable and will be used for refcounting optimisations. Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 8b07bdb11430..ec1cab2b9a91 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -1835,11 +1835,16 @@ static void io_dismantle_req(struct io_kiocb *req) static void __io_free_req(struct io_kiocb *req) { struct io_ring_ctx *ctx = req->ctx; + unsigned long flags; io_dismantle_req(req); io_put_task(req->task, 1); - kmem_cache_free(req_cachep, req); + spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->completion_lock, flags); + list_add(&req->compl.list, &ctx->locked_free_list); + ctx->locked_free_nr++; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->completion_lock, flags); + percpu_ref_put(&ctx->refs); } -- 2.32.0