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ssl_pkix_db should not hard code names. On the other hand the names
are nicer with as <Prefix>_dist than <Prefix>dist.
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Move of PEM cache to own process was flawed and not all PEM files
where cached properly. We must properly handle both the ditributed
and the normal mode of the ssl application.
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The PEM cache handling has proven to be too disruptive of the manager process.
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The current SSL implementation has a PEM cache running through the ssl
manager process, whose primary role is caching CA chains from files on
disk. This is intended as a way to save on disk operation when the
requested certificates are often the same, and those cache values are
both time-bound and reference-counted. The code path also includes
caching the Erlang-formatted certificate as decoded by the public_key
application
The same code path is used for DER-encoded certificates, which are
passed in memory and do not require file access. These certificates are
cached, but not reference-counted and also not shared across
connections.
For heavy usage of DER-encoded certificates, the PEM cache becomes a
central bottleneck for a server, forcing the decoding of every one of
them individually through a single critical process. It is also not
clear if the cache remains useful for disk certificates in all cases.
This commit adds a configuration variable for the ssl application
(bypass_pem_cache = true | false) which allows to open files and decode
certificates in the calling connection process rather than the manager.
When this action takes place, the operations to cache and return data
are replaced to strictly return data.
To provide a transparent behaviour, the 'CacheDbRef' used to keep track
of the certificates in the cache is replaced by the certificates itself,
and all further lookup functions or folds can be done locally.
This has proven under benchmark to more than triple the performance of
the SSL application under load (once the session cache had also been
disabled).
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The PEM cache is now validated by a background process, instead of
always keeping it if it is small enough and clearing it otherwhiss.
That strategy required that small caches where cleared by API function
if a file changes on disk.
However document the clearing API function as it can still be usefull.
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Errors discovered using `erldocs`:
Superfluous @hidden tag would exit edoc application;
'Multiple @spec tag': appended a @clear tag after macro condition;
'@spec arity does not match': added missing argument.
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Conflicts:
lib/ssl/src/ssl.app.src
lib/ssl/src/ssl_manager.erl
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