crypto/tls: pool Conn's outBuf to reduce memory cost of idle connections

Derived from CL 263277, which includes benchmarks.

Fixes #42035

Co-authored-by: Filippo Valsorda <filippo@golang.org>
Change-Id: I5f28673f95d4568b7d13dbc20e9d4b48d481a93d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/267957
Run-TryBot: Dmitri Shuralyov <dmitshur@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Go Bot <gobot@golang.org>
Trust: Filippo Valsorda <filippo@golang.org>
Trust: Roland Shoemaker <roland@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Roland Shoemaker <roland@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Roberto Clapis <roberto@golang.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/crypto/tls/conn.go b/src/crypto/tls/conn.go
index ada19d6e7a..b9a1095862 100644
--- a/src/crypto/tls/conn.go
+++ b/src/crypto/tls/conn.go
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ type Conn struct {
 	rawInput  bytes.Buffer // raw input, starting with a record header
 	input     bytes.Reader // application data waiting to be read, from rawInput.Next
 	hand      bytes.Buffer // handshake data waiting to be read
-	outBuf    []byte       // scratch buffer used by out.encrypt
 	buffering bool         // whether records are buffered in sendBuf
 	sendBuf   []byte       // a buffer of records waiting to be sent
 
@@ -928,9 +927,28 @@ func (c *Conn) flush() (int, error) {
 	return n, err
 }
 
+// outBufPool pools the record-sized scratch buffers used by writeRecordLocked.
+var outBufPool = sync.Pool{
+	New: func() interface{} {
+		return new([]byte)
+	},
+}
+
 // writeRecordLocked writes a TLS record with the given type and payload to the
 // connection and updates the record layer state.
 func (c *Conn) writeRecordLocked(typ recordType, data []byte) (int, error) {
+	outBufPtr := outBufPool.Get().(*[]byte)
+	outBuf := *outBufPtr
+	defer func() {
+		// You might be tempted to simplify this by just passing &outBuf to Put,
+		// but that would make the local copy of the outBuf slice header escape
+		// to the heap, causing an allocation. Instead, we keep around the
+		// pointer to the slice header returned by Get, which is already on the
+		// heap, and overwrite and return that.
+		*outBufPtr = outBuf
+		outBufPool.Put(outBufPtr)
+	}()
+
 	var n int
 	for len(data) > 0 {
 		m := len(data)
@@ -938,8 +956,8 @@ func (c *Conn) writeRecordLocked(typ recordType, data []byte) (int, error) {
 			m = maxPayload
 		}
 
-		_, c.outBuf = sliceForAppend(c.outBuf[:0], recordHeaderLen)
-		c.outBuf[0] = byte(typ)
+		_, outBuf = sliceForAppend(outBuf[:0], recordHeaderLen)
+		outBuf[0] = byte(typ)
 		vers := c.vers
 		if vers == 0 {
 			// Some TLS servers fail if the record version is
@@ -950,17 +968,17 @@ func (c *Conn) writeRecordLocked(typ recordType, data []byte) (int, error) {
 			// See RFC 8446, Section 5.1.
 			vers = VersionTLS12
 		}
-		c.outBuf[1] = byte(vers >> 8)
-		c.outBuf[2] = byte(vers)
-		c.outBuf[3] = byte(m >> 8)
-		c.outBuf[4] = byte(m)
+		outBuf[1] = byte(vers >> 8)
+		outBuf[2] = byte(vers)
+		outBuf[3] = byte(m >> 8)
+		outBuf[4] = byte(m)
 
 		var err error
-		c.outBuf, err = c.out.encrypt(c.outBuf, data[:m], c.config.rand())
+		outBuf, err = c.out.encrypt(outBuf, data[:m], c.config.rand())
 		if err != nil {
 			return n, err
 		}
-		if _, err := c.write(c.outBuf); err != nil {
+		if _, err := c.write(outBuf); err != nil {
 			return n, err
 		}
 		n += m