Re: [Libevent-users] Help with Libevent multi-threaded HTTP server

[Mark Ellzey <mthomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 12:00:39AM +0300, Azat Khuzhin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:22:52PM +0000, Gerry Sweeney wrote:
> > Hi Azat,
> > 
> > Ok thanks. You are right, there is not much different in the two patterns, they are almost the same apart from the first pattern the request is served as soon as there is a free thread to serve it and the second is essentially an open connection that can have data sent down it at any time by another thread.
> > 
> 
> first pattern -> libevhtp
> 
> As for the second pattern, am I understand correct, that the main goal
> of it is is nhave separate thread for non-idle connection?
> IOW we can't reuse that separate thread to do some job for other
> connections.
> 
> If so, I don't think that this is AIO's task, *but*
> all you need is just move handling of this request into separate
> thread, and a brief look at libevhtp shows me that it is pretty easy to
> add.

You can do anything with the per-thread event_base, it is not one thread
per-connection. You can even add your own stuff to it. 

This is a deferral pattern.
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