[gambit-list] Some questions on tls contexts

Dimitris Vyzovitis vyzo at hackzen.org
Mon Mar 26 03:47:09 EDT 2018


Wrt question 2, experiments suggest that the tls context can be safely
reused.

-- vyzo

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo at hackzen.org>
wrote:

> Marc,
>
> Post refcount release bug, I've been looking more closely into the
> implementation of tls contexts, and I have a couple of questions
>
> 1. The tls context contains internally allocated data, that is released
> immediately with ___release_rc_tls_context in failure paths of
> ___os_make_tls_context.
>     However, I am not convinced it gets cleaned up when the tls context is
> reclaimed by the gc.
>     Is there a finalizer for tls contexts or do we leak that internal
> memory?
>
> 2. Is there a need to make a tls context per socket or can the tls context
> be reused and shared among many (concurrent) sockets?
>     Currently I make a new context every time I make an https request, but
> it would be very nice if a single context could be
>     reused.
>
> -- vyzo
>
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