This is the scariest commit I've done in a long time. This is the astobj2-ification of chan_sip. I've tested a number of scenarios like crazy. It used to have 4x the call setup/teardown performance of trunk, but now it's roughly at parity. I will attempt to find the bottlenecks and get it back to the 4x mark. The changes made were somewhat invasive, but the value to the community of these upgrades outweighs waiting further for more testing. Every change being made to chan_sip was lousing this code up when we tried to merge. Peers, Users, Dialogs, are all now astobj2 objects, indexed via hashtables. Refcounting is used to track objects and free them at the bitter end of their lives. Please file issues on bugs.digium.com, and PLEASE, please, please be patient. One natural advantage to all the hash-table work is that loading large sip.conf files full of thousands of peers now goes much faster. One more please: PLEASE help thrash this code and test it.

git-svn-id: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@114190 f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b

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@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ SIP Changes
  * The ATTENDED_TRANSFER_COMPLETE_SOUND can now be set using setvar to cause a given
    audio file to be played upon completion of an attended transfer.
  * Added DNS manager support to registrations for peers referencing peer entries.
+ * Performance improvements via using hash tables (astobj2) and doubly-linked lists to improve 
+   load/reload of large numbers of peers/users by ~40x (for large lists of peers.
+   Initially, we saw 4x improvement in call setup/destruction, but at the time
+   of merging, this gain has disappeared; further research will be done to try
+   and restore this performance improvement. Astobj2 refcounting is now used
+   for users, peers, and dialogs.  Users are encouraged to assist in regression
+   testing and problem reporting!
 
 IAX Changes
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