talloc: Other minor issues/queries

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Thu Oct 22 09:31:33 UTC 2020


Am 10/22/20 um 10:57 AM schrieb Stefan Metzmacher via samba-technical:
> Maybe we could abstract the low level allocation (malloc,realloc,free) in talloc and just
> implement the other allocation schemes below the main talloc logic.
> 
> In order to be able to handle much higher IOPS in our SMB server, we need to find ways
> to optimize our talloc/tevent_req handling.
> 
> These are some ideas, but it will be a long road to get there, so I guess we need to
> find incremental mini steps...

stuffin all this extra stuff into talloc() is going to make to add a lot
of extra complexity that we'll have to maintain in the future as a team
and ideally not just you, Jeremy and Volker. Therefor I'm asking to
please carefully consider if this is worth it.

Thanks!
-slow

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