This structure describes the invite session.
Note regarding the invite session's pools. The inv_sess used to have only one pool, which is just a pointer to the dialog's pool. Ticket https://github.com/pjsip/pjproject/issues/877 has found that the memory usage will grow considerably everytime re-INVITE or UPDATE is performed.
Ticket #877 then created two more memory pools for the inv_sess, so now we have three memory pools:
- pool: to be used to allocate long term data for the session
- pool_prov and pool_active: this is a flip-flop pools to be used interchangably during re-INVITE and UPDATE. pool_prov is "provisional" pool, used to allocate SDP offer or answer for the re-INVITE and UPDATE. Once SDP negotiation is done, the provisional pool will be made as the active pool, then the existing active pool will be reset, to release the memory back to the OS. So these pool's lifetime is synchronized to the SDP offer-answer negotiation.
Higher level application such as PJSUA-LIB has been modified to make use of these flip-flop pools, i.e. by creating media objects from the provisional pool rather than from the long term pool.
Other applications that want to use these pools must understand that the flip-flop pool's lifetimes are synchronized to the SDP offer-answer negotiation.
The lifetime of this session is controlled by the reference counter in this structure, which is manipulated by calling pjsip_inv_add_ref and pjsip_inv_dec_ref. When the reference counter has reached zero, then this session will be destroyed.
- See also
- pjsip_inv_session