Niall The patch supports more than Linux. Currently it supports: Linux Free/Net/Open BSD AIX (7.2+) QNX Neutrino (7+) .. and now implemented and tested on MacOS X using sendmsg_x / recvmsg_x support (thanks for your tip). (About the top post, I didn't mean to cause any problems here. Sorry for that) Note: about Windows Registered I/O support (as you suggested), I could work on (if no-one is still working) a new patch to support RIO using new asio registered_buffer supports later, but it's not in the scope of this implementation, since the semantics are different (a lot). The _multiple_receive_buffers calls are 'emulated' in composed (async_)send(to) calls for sending, and (async_)receive(from) is implemented receiving only the first buffersequence. Since it uses the underlying (async_)receive(from), there's no performance penalty on it, but efficiency is not optimal, while still works. On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 4:35 PM Niall Douglas via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On 16/01/2023 18:28, Virgilio Fornazin wrote:
My patch was develop because I need to implement a high-volume UDP service and I reached the limit of sendto/recvfrom calls/CPU core/second on Linux (about 35k calls/datagrams on my box). With sendmmsg / recvmmsg, I easily reaches 200k datagrams packets/second perform about 6k sendmmsg/recvmmsg calls on same hardware). Using SO_REUSEPORT, with 12 sockets, without sendmmsg / recvmmsg, I reached about 190k datagrams/s using 13 cores. Using 1 receive and 5 senders, reached 1 million datagrams / second (I've reached a peak 12.5 gigabit/second transfers, without any packet loss, using 64MB send/receive buffers). To reach this kind of performance, very specialized programs are needed (busy pooling udp sockets, pin each socket process to a cpu core, also pin RSS-queue to same CPU core (you can read some material on that on Cloudfare's blog https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-receive-a-million-packets ... it's not a trivial task).
The recvmmsg / sendmmsg also suppots TCP on some OS's, so it raised the of I/O performance to another level.
Firstly, you shouldn't top post on boost-dev.
Absolutely does recvmmsg / sendmmsg hugely improve performance if you're working with many tiny messages. But perhaps you missed my point: a patch adding support to ASIO looks a lot more attractive if it isn't Linux exclusive.
For example, FreeBSD has those APIs, but they don't work the same as on Linux. Mac OS has recvmsg_x and sendmsg_x, and those work differently again.
Finally, as mentioned, Windows also has support, but it's different yet again.
I'm not the ASIO maintainer, so it's up to Chris K whether your patch would be accepted or not. But I can tell you a patch with wide platform support and a good test suite would be the ideal, whereas for a single platform I - personally speaking - wouldn't find compelling.
Niall
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