Make winbind use epoll where available

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Jan 17 10:52:20 MST 2013


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Attached find a patchset to make winbind use the standard
> tevent_context_init function which uses epoll where
> available. Before this winbind would always do poll. Ran a
> successful private autobuild.
> 
> One customer test brought winbind from 100% CPU over minutes
> down to barely being seen in "top" for obvious reasons.
> 
> Comments?

Is it worth making samba, smbd and nmbd also do this ?

Jeremy.


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