[Stgt-devel] [PATCH] iscsi no zero data buffer

[Pete Wyckoff]

Avoid zeroing out all the bytes of every incoming and outgoing data
buffer.  This has a measurable performance impact.

Signed-off-by: Pete Wyckoff <pw at osc.edu>
---
 usr/iscsi/iscsid.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/usr/iscsi/iscsid.c b/usr/iscsi/iscsid.c
index 8fd9099..ae840ad 100644
--- a/usr/iscsi/iscsid.c
+++ b/usr/iscsi/iscsid.c
@@ -966,9 +966,10 @@ iscsi_alloc_task(struct iscsi_connection *conn, int ext_len)
 	struct iscsi_hdr *req = (struct iscsi_hdr *) &conn->req.bhs;
 	struct iscsi_task *task;
 
-	task = zalloc(sizeof(*task) + ext_len);
+	task = malloc(sizeof(*task) + ext_len);
 	if (!task)
 		return NULL;
+	memset(task, 0, sizeof(*task));
 
 	memcpy(&task->req, req, sizeof(*req));
 	task->conn = conn;
-- 
1.5.2.4