Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Alex Belits (abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us)
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 05:35:59 -0700 (PDT)


On 24 Apr 1999, Andi Kleen wrote:

>
> You have multiple threads doing an accept on a single listen socket. As
> soon as a thread finished work it calls accept and gets the next ready
> connection handed from the kernel.

...or will be awakened on the connection that was handled by another
thread (because of "wake everyone" handling), and accept() will fail,
causing the infamous "thundering herd".

-- 
Alex

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