On Thursday 29 November 2001 09:20 am, Brian Pane wrote: > From a performance perspective, the two limitations that I see in > the current worker implementation are: > * We're basically guaranteed to have to do an extra context switch on > each connection, in order to pass the connection from the listener > thread to a worker thread. > * The passing of a pool from listener to worker makes it very tricky > to optimize away all the mutexes within the pools. > > So...please forgive me if this has already been considered and dismissed > a long time ago, but...why can't the listener and worker be the same > thread?
That's where we were before worker, with the threaded MPM. There are thread management issues with that model, and it doesn't scale as well. Ryan ______________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------