Re: generalizing khttpd

Zach Brown (zab@zabbo.net)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:58:00 -0400 (EDT)


> Maybe its more relevant to linux-future. But I do think its a useful
> discussion, because it shows what areas linux needs to be better at
> (IF it is true that in-kernel servers right now are much faster).

that is exactly my point (ok, one of them :)). they're currently not
'much' faster.

> But single-threaded servers don't SMP scale. Maybe if you put a thread on
> each CPU and balance requests ?

yes. you have multiple threads with siginfo queues.

> exactly. but it MIGHT provide useful benchmark results and profiling info
> on what pars of the kernel we need to optimize.

I should probably just sit down and do this as no one else seems
interested in finding it out for themselves. Watch This Space :)

single threaded tcp and current heavy weight server design are two
significant bottlenecks.

-- zach

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