Re: [libmicrohttpd] Thread Pooling

[Richard Alimi]

> I'd say let's keep it simple: add new connections to the thread with the
> fewest number of active connections.  Given that most will be short-lived
> and most connections will have similar characteristics, I think this should
> result in at least decent load balancing. Moving connections between
> threads would require locking which would then possibly be a bigger
> bottleneck then what would be caused by a possible imbalance. Asking the
> application for help would really complicate the API so that's really not a
> good idea in my book.

Sounds good to me.  I'll try to get the basic thread pooling done as soon as I 
can, then look at epoll/select within the threads after that.

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Richard Alimi
Department of Computer Science
Yale University