SMB2/3 Performance

[David Disseldorp]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:51:05 +0100
"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze at samba.org> wrote:

> > Is there any advantage, aside from smb1 uniformity?  
> 
> Yes, one less malloc() per request, which costs a lot.

Ok, but having the request processing code-path explicitly use the
talloc hierarchy attached to the request instead of the stackframe would
provide the same benefit (albeit with a huge change).

> I'll add a comment to the commit message...
> 
> The aim is to do at most one malloc() per request.
> I have plans to reclaim unused talloc_stackframe_pool() memory,
> instead of doing one malloc() event loop, but that might come later.

Can't say I like where this is heading. I'd prefer to keep this kind of
garbage collection complexity and overhead out of talloc, but I'll leave
it for others to decide.

Cheers, David