1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source3/lib/util_str.c b/source3/lib/util_str.c
index 967beda1c5d..908f23aaa9d 100644
--- a/source3/lib/util_str.c
+++ b/source3/lib/util_str.c
@@ -1294,3 +1294,42 @@ char **str_list_make_v3(TALLOC_CTX *mem_ctx, const char *string,
 	TALLOC_FREE(s);
 	return list;
 }
+
+/*
+ * This routine improves performance for operations temporarily acting on a
+ * full path. It is equivalent to the much more expensive
+ *
+ * talloc_asprintf(talloc_tos(), "%s/%s", dir, name)
+ *
+ * This actually does make a difference in metadata-heavy workloads (i.e. the
+ * "standard" client.txt nbench run.
+ */
+
+ssize_t full_path_tos(const char *dir, const char *name,
+		      char *tmpbuf, size_t tmpbuf_len,
+		      char **pdst, char **to_free)
+{
+	size_t dirlen, namelen, len;
+	char *dst;
+
+	dirlen = strlen(dir);
+	namelen = strlen(name);
+	len = dirlen + namelen + 1;
+
+	if (len < tmpbuf_len) {
+		dst = tmpbuf;
+		*to_free = NULL;
+	} else {
+		dst = talloc_array(talloc_tos(), char, len+1);
+		if (dst == NULL) {
+			return -1;
+		}
+		*to_free = dst;
+	}
+
+	memcpy(dst, dir, dirlen);
+	dst[dirlen] = '/';
+	memcpy(dst+dirlen+1, name, namelen+1);
+	*pdst = dst;
+	return len;
+}