Abstract: For connection establishment, a system allocates memory that will be occupied by the data and handshake sub-protocol infrastructure that facilitates establishing a TLS connection. After connection establishment, the system allocates memory space for the data and record sub-protocol infrastructure that facilitates the asynchronous communication of application traffic. The memory space for the TLS session (i.e., the communication information separate from the handshake) has a substantially smaller footprint than the memory space for the TLS handshake. The TLS handshake memory space can be released and recycled for other connections while application communications use the smaller memory space allocated and populated with the TLS session data and infrastructure.

Abstract: For connection establishment, a system allocates memory that will be occupied by the data and handshake sub-protocol infrastructure that facilitates establishing a TLS connection. After connection establishment, the system allocates memory space for the data and record sub-protocol infrastructure that facilitates the asynchronous communication of application traffic. The memory space for the TLS session (i.e., the communication information separate from the handshake) has a substantially smaller footprint than the memory space for the TLS handshake. The TLS handshake memory space can be released and recycled for other connections while application communications use the smaller memory space allocated and populated with the TLS session data and infrastructure.

Abstract: A host computer dispatches storage I/O operations to a storage array by, in an I/O dispatch context, (i) identifying an I-T-L nexus based on a minimum-weight I-T nexus and a logical device of a storage I/O operation, (ii) dispatching the I/O on the identified I-T-L nexus, and (iii) updating a dispatch weight for the minimum-weight I-T nexus and logical device. In an I/O completion context, a completion weight is updated for an I-T nexus and logical device of a completed I/O. A background process is performed regularly for selecting the minimum-weight I-T nexus, including (a) for each I-T nexus, calculating a current weight value as a sum of difference values for all logical devices, each being the difference between the dispatch weight and the completion weight for the I-T nexus and logical device, and (b) selecting the I-T nexus having a minimum current weight value as the minimum-weight I-T nexus.