C API?

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Agreed.

Just send all requests and select/poll on the 1-50 sockets.


On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:27:47PM -0700, Evan Martin wrote:
> > I was worrying about this, too... are there cases where you'd want to be
> > able to integrate the memcache client reads into a centralized event
> > loop?  In that case, we need to somehow (either by returning file
> > descriptors or requiring a register_fd callback argument) let the user
> > do the select().  Same for put().  Yikes.
>
> Hmm. Not sure. I'd guess we can get off the ground with set/retrieve
> operations being atomic for the client, and then see if there's any
> demand for doing it the other way.
>
> > And then, should we really use select?  Or is this another job for
> > libevent?  :\
>
> Dunno about libevent, but epoll is probably an overkill here (at least
> demanding it is). Of course, we could rely on libevent and let it use
> select/poll if it doesn't find epoll. Or we could eliminate the
> dependency and just do select/poll ourselves. What's could the maximum
> number of servers per request, in a large installation that uses
> memcache now? 50-60? I don't think the benefits of epoll kick in yet,
> at such small numbers.
>
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