Re: [boost] [Fibers] Performance

Subject: Re: [boost] [Fibers] Performance
From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-16 09:32:30

> > 2014/1/16 Giovanni Piero Deretta <gpderetta_at_[hidden]>
> >
> > > I think that Harmut point is that you can very well use threads for
> > > the same thing. In this particular case you would just perform a
> > > syncronous read. Yes, to mantain the same level of concurrency you
> > > need to spawn ten of thousands of threads, but that's feasible on a
> > > modern os/hardware
> > pair.
> > > The point of using fibers (i.e. M:N threading) is almost purely
> > > performance.
> > >
> >
> > In the context of C10K problem and using the one-thread-per-client
> > pattern I doubt that this would scale (even on modern hardware). Do
> > you have some data showing the performance of an modern operating
> > system and hardware by increasing thread count?
> >
> >
> I do not have hard numbers (do you?), but consider that the C10K page is
> quite antiquated today.
> 
> On a previous life I worked on relatively low-latency applications that
> did handle multiple thousands requests per second per machine. We never
> bothered with anything but with the one thread per connection model. This
> was on windows, on, IIRC, octa-core  64 bits machines (today you can
> "easily" get 24 cores or more on a standard intel server class machine).
> 
> Now, if we were talking about hundreds of thousands of threads or milions
> of threads, it would be interesting to see numbers for both threads and
> fibers...

FWIW, the use cases I'm seeing (and trust me those are very commonplace at
least in scientific computing) involve not just hundreds or thousands of
threads, but hundreds of millions of threads (billions of threads a couple
of years from now).

Regards Hartmut
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