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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] io_uring: follow **iovec idiom in io_import_iovec
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:16:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On 7/13/20 3:12 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
> On 14/07/2020 00:09, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 7/13/20 1:59 PM, Pavel Begunkov wrote:
>>> @@ -3040,8 +3040,7 @@ static int io_read(struct io_kiocb *req, bool force_nonblock,
>>>  		}
>>>  	}
>>>  out_free:
>>> -	if (!(req->flags & REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP))
>>> -		kfree(iovec);
>>> +	kfree(iovec);
>>>  	return ret;
>>>  }
>>
>> Faster to do:
>>
>> if (iovec)
>> 	kfree(iovec)
>>
>> to avoid a stupid call. Kind of crazy, but I just verified with this one
>> as well that it's worth about 1.3% CPU in my stress test.
> 
> That looks crazy indeed

I suspect what needs to happen is that kfree should be something ala:

static inline void kfree(void *ptr)
{
	if (ptr)
		__kfree(ptr);
}

to avoid silly games like this. Needs to touch all three slab
allocators, though definitely in the trivial category.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-13 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-13 19:59 [PATCH for-5.9 0/3] rw iovec copy cleanup Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-13 19:59 ` [PATCH 1/3] io_uring: simplify io_req_map_rw() Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-13 19:59 ` [PATCH 2/3] io_uring: add a helper for async rw iovec prep Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-13 19:59 ` [PATCH 3/3] io_uring: follow **iovec idiom in io_import_iovec Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-13 21:09   ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-13 21:12     ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-13 21:16       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2020-07-13 21:18         ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-07-13 21:26           ` Jens Axboe
2020-07-13 21:09 ` [PATCH for-5.9 0/3] rw iovec copy cleanup Jens Axboe

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