[Python-checkins] bpo-40521: Disable list free list in subinterpreters (GH-19959)

[Victor Stinner]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b7aa23d29fa48238dab3692d02e1f0a7e8a5af9c
commit: b7aa23d29fa48238dab3692d02e1f0a7e8a5af9c
branch: master
author: Victor Stinner <vstinner at python.org>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2020-05-06T19:05:27+02:00
summary:

bpo-40521: Disable list free list in subinterpreters (GH-19959)

When Python is built with experimental isolated interpreters, disable
the list free list.

Temporary workaround until this cache is made per-interpreter.

files:
M Objects/listobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index 904bea317c9da..37fadca129ac0 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -98,8 +98,15 @@ list_preallocate_exact(PyListObject *self, Py_ssize_t size)
 
 /* Empty list reuse scheme to save calls to malloc and free */
 #ifndef PyList_MAXFREELIST
-#define PyList_MAXFREELIST 80
+#  define PyList_MAXFREELIST 80
 #endif
+
+/* bpo-40521: list free lists are shared by all interpreters. */
+#ifdef EXPERIMENTAL_ISOLATED_SUBINTERPRETERS
+#  undef PyList_MAXFREELIST
+#  define PyList_MAXFREELIST 0
+#endif
+
 static PyListObject *free_list[PyList_MAXFREELIST];
 static int numfree = 0;