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In testing high frequency workloads with provided buffers, we spend a lot of time in allocating and freeing the buffer units themselves. Rather than repeatedly free and alloc them, add a recycling cache instead. There are two caches: - ctx->io_buffers_cache. This is the one we grab from in the submission path, and it's protected by ctx->uring_lock. For inline completions, we can recycle straight back to this cache and not need any extra locking. - ctx->io_buffers_comp. If we're not under uring_lock, then we use this list to recycle buffers. It's protected by the completion_lock. On adding a new buffer, check io_buffers_cache. If it's empty, check if we can splice entries from the io_buffers_comp_cache. This reduces about 5-10% of overhead from provided buffers, bringing it pretty close to the non-provided path. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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