TCP Zero copy using boost

假如想象 提交于 2019-12-03 07:46:47

You could watch this BoostCon talk by the Yandex guys: The Optimization of a Boost.Asio-based Networking Server

My gut feeling says they (the Yandex guys) overengineered this (quite a bit...). I'd say the essential solution would lie in just using pre-allocated fixed-buffers (perhaps per-thread) and use the MutableBufferSequence concept from Asio to glue them together.

This approach is known as Scatter-Gather and is only briefly described in the Asio docs. There could be a relevant example here: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/doc/html/boost_asio/examples/cpp11_examples.html#boost_asio.examples.cpp11_examples.buffers

As @Nim already commented, Asio by default works in "zero-copy" mode (because it never owns a buffer, nor allocates on behalf of the caller). So it should actually be pretty simple to get it to work. Of course, whether the kernel/libc functions are implemented in zero-copy fashion depends solely on the OS/platform.

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