In a technological landscape that is quickly moving toward dense multi-CPU and multi-core computer systems, where using multithreading is an increasingly popular application design decision, it is important to choose a proper model for distributing tasks across multiple threads that will result in the best efficiency for the application and the system as a whole. The work described in this paper creates, implements and evaluates various models of distributing tasks to CPU threads and investigates their characteristics for use in modern high-performance network servers. The results presented here comprise a roadmap of models for building multithreaded server applications for modern server hardware and Unix-like operating systems.
@article{arxiv.0909.4934,
title = {Characteristics of multithreading models for high-performance IO driven network applications},
author = {Ivan Voras and Mario Zagar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4934},
year = {2009}
}