Re: [PATCH for-5.15 v2] io_uring: don't free request to slab

[Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>]

On 8/25/21 6:58 PM, Hao Xu wrote:
> It's not necessary to free the request back to slab when we fail to
> get sqe, just move it to state->free_list.

Looks good, with that we have a consistent behaviour of retaining
io_kiocb for all cases.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com>

> Signed-off-by: Hao Xu <haoxu@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  fs/io_uring.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
> index 74b606990d7e..c53b084668fc 100644
> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
> @@ -6899,7 +6899,7 @@ static int io_submit_sqes(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, unsigned int nr)
>  		}
>  		sqe = io_get_sqe(ctx);
>  		if (unlikely(!sqe)) {
> -			kmem_cache_free(req_cachep, req);
> +			list_add(&req->inflight_entry, &ctx->submit_state.free_list);
>  			break;
>  		}
>  		/* will complete beyond this point, count as submitted */
> 

-- 
Pavel Begunkov