io_uring/kbuf: Use slab for struct io_buffer objects
The allocation of struct io_buffer for metadata of provided buffers is done through a custom allocator that directly gets pages and fragments them. But, slab would do just fine, as this is not a hot path (in fact, it is a deprecated feature) and, by keeping a custom allocator implementation we lose benefits like tracking, poisoning, sanitizers. Finally, the custom code is more complex and requires keeping the list of pages in struct ctx for no good reason. This patch cleans this path up and just uses slab. I microbenchmarked it by forcing the allocation of a large number of objects with the least number of io_uring commands possible (keeping nbufs=USHRT_MAX), with and without the patch. There is a slight increase in time spent in the allocation with slab, of course, but even when allocating to system resources exhaustion, which is not very realistic and happened around 1/2 billion provided buffers for me, it wasn't a significant hit in system time. Specially if we think of a real-world scenario, an application doing register/unregister of provided buffers will hit ctx->io_buffers_cache more often than actually going to slab. Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005000531.30800-4-krisman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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