Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently lists are being used to manage this, but lists isn't a very > good choice for as extracting the current entry necessitates touching > the next entry as well, to update the list head. > > Outside of that detail, games are also played with KASAN as the list > is inside the cached entry itself. > > Finally, all users of this need a struct io_cache_entry embedded in > their struct, which is union'ized with something else in there that > isn't used across the free -> realloc cycle. > > Get rid of all of that, and simply have it be an array. This will not > change the memory used, as we're just trading an 8-byte member entry > for the per-elem array size. > > This reduces the overhead of the recycled allocations, and it reduces > the code we have to support recycling. Hi Jens, I tried applying the entire to your for-6.10/io_uring branch to test it and only this last patch failed to apply. The tip of the branch I have is 22261e73e8d2 ("io_uring/alloc_cache: shrink default max entries from 512 to 128"). > -static inline struct io_cache_entry *io_alloc_cache_get(struct io_alloc_cache *cache) > +static inline void *io_alloc_cache_get(struct io_alloc_cache *cache) > { > - if (cache->list.next) { > - struct io_cache_entry *entry; > + if (cache->nr_cached) { > + void *entry = cache->entries[--cache->nr_cached]; > > - entry = container_of(cache->list.next, struct io_cache_entry, node); > kasan_mempool_unpoison_object(entry, cache->elem_size); > - cache->list.next = cache->list.next->next; > - cache->nr_cached--; > return entry; > } > > return NULL; > } > > -static inline void io_alloc_cache_init(struct io_alloc_cache *cache, > - unsigned max_nr, size_t size) > +static inline int io_alloc_cache_init(struct io_alloc_cache *cache, > + unsigned max_nr, size_t size) > { > - cache->list.next = NULL; > + cache->entries = kvmalloc_array(max_nr, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!cache->entries) > + return -ENOMEM; > cache->nr_cached = 0; > cache->max_cached = max_nr; > cache->elem_size = size; > + return 0; > } > > static inline void io_alloc_cache_free(struct io_alloc_cache *cache, > - void (*free)(struct io_cache_entry *)) > + void (*free)(const void *)) Minor, but since free is supposed to free the entry, const doesn't make sense here. Also, you actually just cast it away immediately in every usage. -- Gabriel Krisman Bertazi