MINOR: ssl: add a global tunable for the max SSL/TLS record size
Add new tunable "tune.ssl.maxrecord".
Over SSL/TLS, the client can decipher the data only once it has received
a full record. With large records, it means that clients might have to
download up to 16kB of data before starting to process them. Limiting the
record size can improve page load times on browsers located over high
latency or low bandwidth networks. It is suggested to find optimal values
which fit into 1 or 2 TCP segments (generally 1448 bytes over Ethernet
with TCP timestamps enabled, or 1460 when timestamps are disabled), keeping
in mind that SSL/TLS add some overhead. Typical values of 1419 and 2859
gave good results during tests. Use "strace -e trace=write" to find the
best value.
This trick was first suggested by Mike Belshe :
http://www.belshe.com/2010/12/17/performance-and-the-tls-record-size/
Then requested again by Ilya Grigorik who provides some hints here :
http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449344764/_transport_layer_security_tls.html#ch04_00000101
diff --git a/include/types/global.h b/include/types/global.h
index 730cc64..41cd67f 100644
--- a/include/types/global.h
+++ b/include/types/global.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@
#ifdef USE_OPENSSL
int sslcachesize; /* SSL cache size in session, defaults to 20000 */
unsigned int ssllifetime; /* SSL session lifetime in seconds */
+ unsigned int ssl_max_record; /* SSL max record size */
#endif
#ifdef USE_ZLIB
int zlibmemlevel; /* zlib memlevel */