Describe the problem
We are seeing excess allocations due to the upgrade to go 1.17 and this bug:
golang/go#52790
This was fixed in go 1.17.11.
Currently master uses 1.17.10 and release-22.1 uses 1.17.6.
Expected behavior
Upgrade both branches to build with 1.17.11.
Jira issue: CRDB-16676