Re: [boost] Boost Asio on multi processor environment

From: Bigcheese (bigcheesegs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-03 10:51:03

>
> Hi,
>
> I am designing a server which will going to run on multiprocessor and
> which will going to provide service to thousand of clients concurrently.
> I am using boost asio library to do this. I want to use one io_service
> object per CPU approach for this. Let me describe what I want...
>
> 1.      I want to create ioservice object as per the no of CPU I have,
> so that I can distribute the load evenly.
> 2.      How to create a list of ioservice object & make them running all
> the time even when there is no request to process. What's the definition
> of idle ioservice in this case... the one which is this the one which is
> not handling any connection? How can I choose a ioservice out of a pool
> of idle service whenever a new request comes from the client.
> 3.      Can I restrict no of clients(connections) on each io service,
> lets say 500 connection on each ioservice or so ?
>

As far as I am aware, doing io_service.run() in multiple threads works just
fine.