Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Thread] Multithreaded Multithreaded Server (Ian Mallett)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Thread] Multithreaded Multithreaded Server (Ian Mallett)
From: Marat Abrarov (abrarov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-11 06:07:15

> Hi,
> 
> Fairly new to Boost.  Bear with me.
> 
> I'm trying to write a multithreaded multithreaded server (two multithreaded
> operations): ideally, there should be a single process, containing at least two threads.  The first
> thread handles various tasks (and can start other threads to help it as well).  The other thread waits
> for incoming connections, and adds a new thread for each one:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/asio-samples/
Look at projects "echo_server" and "qt_echo_server".

They use 2 thread pools among main (GUI) thread.
One thread pool (size is 1-2 threads) executes session management loop: 
acceptance (with limited number of active sessions), start of accepted session, end of all sessions.
Second thread pool (by default is CPU number bounded) executes sessions' loops: 
start of asynchronous read, start of asynchronous write, IO operation completion handling.
 
Regards,
Marat Abrarov.