greybus: create a slab cache for simple messages
A large number of request and response message types have no payload. Such "simple" messages have a known, fixed maximum size, so we can preallocate and use a pool (slab cache) of them. Here are two benefits to doing this: - There can be (small) performance and memory utilization benefits to using a slab cache. - Error responses can be sent with no payload; the cache is likely to have a free entry to use for an error response even in a low memory situation. The plan here is that an incoming request handler that has no response payload to fill will not need to allocate a response message. If no message has been allocated when a response is to be sent, one will be allocated from the cache by the core code. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
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