Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 15 Sep 1999 00:58:45 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:17:39 -0700, Jason Nordwick
<nordwick@erdos.askjeeves.com> said:

>> if someone is trying to implement the API described in banga's paper,
>> you should send some e-mail to the authors (jeff mogul and gaurav
>> banga) and ask them if they have more research on this besides what
>> is described in that paper. at usenix, i asked about some details
>> during gaurav's presentation, and jeff mogul hinted that there were
>> some things they had been working on (new APIs to support sharing the
>> event queue over multiple threads?) but that weren't included in the
>> paper.

> If people are going to implement this, I think that it would be good
> if there was an API writeup first. I would like to implement
> something similar in FreeBSD and I think that it would be nice to see
> both implementations have the same API and effects.

We already have a queued event model. I have already submitted a fix
for 2.3 to add si_band reason codes to the events. The only thing
missing is POSIX shared signal queues: any takers?

--Stephen

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