[PATCH] stdmem: free: only call _gcry_secmem_free if needed

Kristian Fiskerstrand kristian.fiskerstrand at sumptuouscapital.com
Tue Oct 30 21:55:14 CET 2018


On 10/28/18 12:46 AM, Jussi Kivilinna wrote:
> Unnecessarily taking secmem lock on non-secure memory can result poor
> performance on multi-threaded workloads:
>   https://marc.info/?l=gcrypt-devel&m=153424107207061&w=2

If you are making changes to the patch anyways, maybe update this
comment to use
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gcrypt-devel/2018-August/004535.html
instead so we don't rely on third party service? It was painful enough
when Gmane dissapeared.

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