[zeromq-dev] P/Invoke-based CLR access to zeroMQ

[Dirk O. Siebnich]

Please find attached an updated P/invoke-based CLR implementation. I
have implemented switching between copying and pinning in the Send
function based on some quick measurements.

-Dirk

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:03 +0100, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> Dirk,
> 
> > Well, the CLR is an amazing piece of technology. Please check the
> > attached dnzmq.cs, I think I made the Send function work without
> > modifications to the C-API. So all that's needed now would be a receive
> > with a allocator callback.
> 
> It looks pretty elegant.
> 
> > There is just one minor problem: with messages of 512 bytes size, the
> > original copy-based implementation is twice as fast as the new one...
> 
> :)
> 
> This is why I've proposed to use zero-copy only for large messages. On 
> low layers (like OS kernel) the low limit for messages to be more 
> effective with zero-copy is somewhere at several kilobytes of size. With 
> the functionality on higher level of stack, this limit may be even higher.
> 
> Once we have a little time we'll give your implementation a try testing 
> it for different message sizes. Testing it for both zero-copy and copy 
> algorithms should yield 2 linear graphs. The intersection of the two 
> lines should be a located at the message size where zero-copy starts to 
> be more efficient than copy algorithm.
> 
> Btw, we've fixed the bugs you've reported and merged the fixes into the 
> trunk. The only exception is the SCTP-related problem which will take a 
> some time to fix as we are having problems with SCTP API not being fully 
> standardised at the moment.
> 
> Martin
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