From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 7 21:30:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02230 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 21:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01950 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 21:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02867; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 00:29:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803080529.AAA02867@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: kernel wishlist for web server performance In-Reply-To: from Marc Slemko at "Mar 7, 98 10:13:31 pm" To: marcs@znep.com Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 00:29:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marc Slemko said: > > Decent kernel threads. > Definitely in FreeBSD V3.0. John Birrell and I are doing them. (I have been holding up progress, but will really be in 3.0). > > Async IO (AIO) stuff that works for sockets. > Definitely in FreeBSD V3.0. It is already in -current, modulo 1 or 2 minor bugs, and is already being used by a big database mfg. The FreeBSD AIO API works for every file descriptor, and optimizations can be added incrementally. > > A sendfile() (eg. HPUX 11.x) or TransmitFile (eg. WinNT) system call. > ???? More info ???? > > An efficient poll(). > Don't know. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message