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Bug 1563130

Summary: curl_easy_pause inefficiency before version 7.32.0
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Ankur deDev <ankur.dedev>
Component: curlAssignee: Kamil Dudka <kdudka>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 7.4CC: fsumsal, kdudka
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Description Ankur deDev 2018-04-03 08:27:16 UTC
From the following page
https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_pause.html

"Before libcurl 7.32.0, when a specific handle was unpaused with this function, there was no particular forced rechecking or similar of the socket's state, which made the continuation of the transfer get delayed until next multi-socket call invoke or even longer. Alternatively, the user could forcibly call for example curl_multi_socket_all - with a rather hefty performance penalty.

Starting in libcurl 7.32.0, unpausing a transfer will schedule a timeout trigger for that handle 1 millisecond into the future, so that a curl_multi_socket_action( ... CURL_SOCKET_TIMEOUT) can be used immediately afterwards to get the transfer going again as desired."

From the above, the version 7.32.0 seems to bring a fix without changing the interface. The version of libcurl in RHEL 7.4 is 7.29.0, would it be possible to bring that fix in this version?

Thanks

Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2018-04-05 12:59:51 UTC
I am afraid that this improvement comes with an observable change in behavior, which could trigger bugs in 3rd party code that relies on the current behavior.

We need to have a good business justification for including this in a minor update of RHEL-7.  If you are a customer of Red Hat, please contact Product Support and tell them about this bug.

Comment 4 Kamil Dudka 2020-11-06 17:14:05 UTC
It is too late to fix this in RHEL-7.  The bug in question is fixed in RHEL-8 though.  Closing NEXTRELEASE.