Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: InfoWorld web server shootout | Date | 10 Jul 1997 18:27:50 +0200 |
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Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> writes: > [ Multi-Accept ] > At least on FreeBSD it worked fine, but caused a significant performance > loss because of simultaneous awakening of accept()'ing tasks even though > for all tasks but one accept() failed when only one client connected at > the time. In FreeBSD it's changed in 2.2.x, but I haven't looked in Linux > code that handles it, and don't know if Linux suffers from the same > problem. > As far as I can see from a cursory look at tcp_input.c, Linux does wake every process that's in accept() (2.0; don't know about 2.1).
That should probably be changed...
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