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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: kirk bae <justformoonie@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: So, Poll is not scalable... what to do?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 06:32:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031112053207.GA9634@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <LAW12-F60bw5TYIo9WF0002bec8@hotmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:52:42PM -0600, kirk bae wrote:
> If poll is not scalable, which method should I use when writing 
> multithreaded socket server?

Honnestly, if you're using threads (I mean lots of threads, such as one
per connection), I don't think that poll performance will be your worst
ennemy. The first thing to do is to handle the task switching yourself
either with a publicly available coroutine library or with one of your own.

Take a look here for more a comparison of several available methods :

    http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

epoll is compared to other methods with numbers here :

    http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html

Cheers,
Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-12  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-11 23:52 So, Poll is not scalable... what to do? kirk bae
2003-11-12  3:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-12  5:32 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2003-11-12 23:26   ` bill davidsen
2003-11-13  0:32     ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-13  0:54       ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-13 12:02         ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-12 23:23 ` bill davidsen
2003-11-13  1:06   ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-11-13  7:52 ` David Schwartz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-13 18:25 Dan Kegel
2003-11-13 23:10 kirk bae
2003-11-14  0:52 ` Mark Mielke
2003-11-14  0:27 Dan Kegel
2003-11-14 18:57 Frederic Rossi

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