A bundle is a list of all persistent connections to the same host.
The connection cache consists of a hash of bundles, with the
hostname as the key.
The benefits may not be obvious, but they are two:
1) Faster search for connections to reuse, since the hash
lookup only finds connections to the host in question.
2) It lays out the groundworks for an upcoming patch,
which will introduce multiple HTTP pipelines.
This patch also removes the awkward list of "closure handles",
which were needed to send QUIT commands to the FTP server
when closing a connection.
Now we allocate a separate closure handle and use that
one to close all connections.
This has been tested in a live system for a few weeks, and of
course passes the test suite.
hash function for different hashes, and also expanded the default size for
the socket hash table used in multi handles to greatly enhance speed when
very many connections are added and the socket API is used.
NOT free the existing hash entry when we try to add a new one that matches
an existing entry. We now instead free the new one, and make the parent
function use the old entry's struct instead.
counter so that the caller needs to decrease that counter when done with
the returned data.
If compiled with MALLOCDEBUG I've added some extra checking that the counter
is decreased before a handle is closed etc.
- Use a global dns cache (via setting the tentatively named,
CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE option to true)
- Use a per-handle dns cache, by default
- Use a pooled dns cache when in the "multi" interface
Linus Nielsen Feltzing