Actually, I was going to test that exact patch this weekend, in hopes of getting it into 2.4
> On May 8, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Christophe JAILLET > <christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > Hi, > > The SO_REUSEPORT patch has been in trunk for a few months now and has been > proposed for backport in 2.4.x. > > Here is an interesting paper which gives a clear explanation and some > benchmark results: > http://www.intel.ie/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/scaling-apache-server-performance-paper.pdf > > > Would be great if it could be committed in 2.4.x. > Having it reviewed and tested for 2.4.13 may not be possible because of the > T&R window which seems to be in the coming days/weeks. > (this already what was answered for the 2.4.11/2.4.12 release) > > > Maybe, 2.4.14 could focus on reviewing/merging this patch and associated > performance improvement? > To help adoption, maybe an ASF server could be upgraded with a SO_REUSEPORT > patched version of Apache to have our own measurements and see how it scales > in a real world application. > This has already been done in the past (testing impact of the skiplist > implementation). > > Best regards, > CJ >