> -static struct io_kiocb *io_get_req(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx) > +static struct io_kiocb *io_get_req(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, > + struct io_submit_state *state) > { > + gfp_t gfp = GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN; No actually in this patch, but why do we do GFP_ATOMIC allocations here? We aren't in irq context or under a spinlock. > + if (!state) > + req = kmem_cache_alloc(req_cachep, gfp); Add a if (!req) goto out; plus the missing braces here.. > + else if (!state->free_reqs) { > + size_t sz; > + int ret; > + > + sz = min_t(size_t, state->ios_left, ARRAY_SIZE(state->reqs)); > + ret = kmem_cache_alloc_bulk(req_cachep, gfp, sz, > + state->reqs); > + if (ret <= 0) > + goto out; > + state->free_reqs = ret - 1; > + state->cur_req = 1; > + req = state->reqs[0]; > + } else { > + req = state->reqs[state->cur_req]; > + state->free_reqs--; > + state->cur_req++; > + } > + > if (req) { > req->ctx = ctx; > req->flags = 0; > return req; > } ... and we don't need this conditional, which would otherwise also be in the fast path.