Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Tony Gale (gale@syntax.dera.gov.uk)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 17:06:23 +0100 (BST)

On 23-Apr-99 Chuck Lever wrote:

>> Depends. You can use a thread pool and queue requests which are
>> then
>> picked up by the threads.
>
> how do you propose to do that efficiently? is there a nice way in
> Unix/Linux to hand out incoming network requests to a pool of
> threads?
>

You have a main thread that does an accept() loop and queues
the connections via the descriptor (possibly starting new threads, *if
required*).

I've already implemented this for a web proxy I've been working on.

-tony

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