While idr lookup isn't a particularly heavy operation, it still is too
substantial to use in hot paths without worrying about the performance
implications. With recent changes, each idr_layer covers 256 slots
which should be enough to cover most use cases with single idr_layer
making lookup hint very attractive.
This patch adds idr->hint which points to the idr_layer which
allocated an ID most recently and the fast path lookup becomes
if (look up target's prefix matches that of the hinted layer)
return hint->ary[ID's offset in the leaf layer];
which can be inlined.
idr->hint is set to the leaf node on idr_fill_slot() and cleared from
free_layer().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>