Best practice for accepting TCP connections on multicore?

Igor Mozolevsky igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk
Sat Jun 7 14:19:54 UTC 2014


On 7 June 2014 01:53, Dirk Engling <erdgeist at erdgeist.org> wrote:

>
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2014, Daniel Janzon wrote:
>
>  Is there any better way than doing the accept() call in one thread and
>> then
>> dispatch it to a thread on another core with any user space method?
>>
>
See C10K problem [1].


Why use accept() and not kevent()? You need to keep it portable?
>

Has anyone rebutted the threads better than events paper[2] yet?



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

2.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/vonbehren/vonbehren.pdf


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Igor M.


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