At 10:14 AM 10/22/2006, ando@sys-net.it wrote:

Full_Name: Pierangelo Masarati Version: HEAD OS: irrelevant URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/ Submission from: (NULL) (81.72.89.40) Submitted by: ando

In proxies, we occasionally need to mark some response messages as "don't care". This is slightly different than "abandon", in the sense that, for performance and band occupation, an abandon would likely get too late to the remote server, but if the response is not removed from the list that would grow and waste resources.

In realistic cases we profiled proxies that spend 50-60% of the CPU time running the list of messages to check if any of them has been abandoned.

The proposed fix consists in:

• keeping abandoned msgid's sorted, so that a bisection algorithm can be used to

check if a msgid has been abandoned

• add a ldap_int_abandon() call that marks a message as "abandoned" without

actually sending an "abandon" operation. This call is, by now, private (ldap_int_) since its use in normal clients would make little sense. However, whenever it does make sense, there's no objection in making the call public (sort of ldap_abandon_mark()).

I rather not name this "abandon" as it doesn't send an Abandon request. Maybe name this "discard" instead. E.g., ldap_int_discard().

With this change, the overall CPU used to check response list in the very same test cases dropped to less than 1%.

p.