Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

* Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> wrote:

> Firstly, i dont think you are fully applying the syslet/threadlet 
> model. There is no reason why an 'idle' client would have to use up a 
> full thread! It all depends on how you use syslets/threadlets, and how 
> (frequently) you queue back requests from cachemiss threads back to 
> the primary thread. It is only the simplest queueing model where there 
> is one thread per request that is currently blocked. 
> Syslets/threadlets do /not/ force request processing to be performed 
> in the async context forever - the async thread could very much queue 
> it back to the primary context. (That's in essence what Tux did.) So 
> the same state-machine techniques can be applied on both the syslet 
> and the threadlet model, but in much more natural (and thus lower 
> overhead) points: /between/ system calls and not in the middle of 
> them. There are a number of measures that can be used to keep the 
> number of parallel threads down.

i think the best model here is to use kevents or epoll to discover 
accept()-able or recv()-able keepalive sockets, and to do the main 
request loop via syslets/threadlets, with a 'queue back to the main 
context if we went async and if the request is done' feedback mechanism 
that keeps the size of the pool down.

	Ingo
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