Hyperscan MPM can cache the compiled contexts to files.
This however grows as rulesets change and leads to bloating
the system. This addition prunes the stale cache files based
on their modified file timestamp.
Part of this work incorporates new model for MPM cache stats
to split it out from the cache save function and aggregate
cache-related stats in one place (newly added pruning).
Ticket: 7830
Cache Hyperscan serialized databases to disk to prevent compilation
of the same databases when Suricata is run again with the same
ruleset.
Hyperscan binary files are stored per rulegroup in the designated
folder, by default in the cached library folder.
Since caching is per signature group heads,
some chunk of the ruleset can change and it still can reuse part of
the unchanged signature groups.
Loading *fresh* ET Open ruleset: 19 seconds
Loading *cached* ET Open ruleset: 07 seconds
Ticket: 7170