Epoll is fundamentally broken 1/2 — Idea of the day
In previous articles we talked about: The history of the Select(2) syscall Select(2) being fundamentally broken This time we'll focus on Linux's select(2) successor - the epoll(2) I/O multiplexing syscall. Epoll is relatively young. It was created by Davide Libenzi in 2002. For comparison: Windows did IOCP in 1994 and FreeBSD's kqueue was introduced in July 2000. Unfortunately, even though epoll i
Kernel bypass
In two previous posts we've discussed how to receive 1M UDP packets per second and how to reduce the round trip time. We did the experiments on Linux and the performance was very good considering it's a general purpose operating system. Unfortunately the speed of vanilla Linux kernel networking is not sufficient for more specialized workloads. For example, here at CloudFlare, we are constantly dea
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