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Re: roadmap 2022 thoughts?
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From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 23:55:20 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, James Read via curl-library wrote:
> Extensive testing with epoll has showed limitations in the speed up when
> using concurrent connections.
Have you ruled out that these limitations aren't just the results of bugs or
plain inefficiencies in the code?
> Perhaps it would be useful to add support for PACKET_MMAP style
> communication to get more speed up out of it.
In general I'm in favor of adventures to improve performance. Doing
PACKET_MMAP style networking sounds like the TLS layer would also need some
serious adjustments, so quite a hefty effort probably. Optimized transfers for
clear-text only would feel a tad bit too much like 2016 or so! :-)
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 23:55:20 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 6 Jan 2022, James Read via curl-library wrote:
> Extensive testing with epoll has showed limitations in the speed up when
> using concurrent connections.
Have you ruled out that these limitations aren't just the results of bugs or
plain inefficiencies in the code?
> Perhaps it would be useful to add support for PACKET_MMAP style
> communication to get more speed up out of it.
In general I'm in favor of adventures to improve performance. Doing
PACKET_MMAP style networking sounds like the TLS layer would also need some
serious adjustments, so quite a hefty effort probably. Optimized transfers for
clear-text only would feel a tad bit too much like 2016 or so! :-)
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