speeding up string_to_sid

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 09:45:40AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Jim McDonough wrote:
> > We've got a customer hitting the CPU wall on winbind, and a big 
> > factor in it is the string_to_sid() code
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> > So for a million lookups, that's the difference.  And this customer is 
> > getting a tremendous rate of lookups...
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> > Think i should check this in?  Or some variant?
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> The patch looks good to me.  If you could s/memset/ZERO_STRUCTP/
> and then fix the outdated comments to 'ia', that would be good.

Likewise (looks good) - ship it Jim !

:-).

Jeremy.