Right. Thats the easy bit. I could even do that in Squid-2 with a little bit of luck. The hard bit is rewriting the relevant code which relies on cbdata style reference counting behaviour. That is the tricky bit.
Adrian 2009/11/20 Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net>: > On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:46 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Plenty of kernels nowdays do a bit of TCP and socket process in >> process/thread context; so you need to do your socket TX/RX in >> different processes/threads to get parallelism in the networking side >> of things. > > Very good point. > >> You could fake it somewhat by pushing socket IO into different threads >> but then you have all the overhead of shuffling IO and completed IO >> between threads. This may be .. complicated. > > The event loop I put together for -3 should be able to do that without > changing the loop - just extending the modules that hook into it. > > -Rob >
