[zeromq-dev] Migrating IPC-based Pub/Sub System To ZMQ

[Peter Alexander]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Santy, Michael
<Michael.Santy at dynetics.com>wrote:

>  > Indeed, round-robin is not perfect for all types of workload
> > distribution.  You can consider using a reverse request-reply
> > mechanism where the workers signal 'ready' by sending a request.
> >
>
Is it in consideration to make load-balancing/distributing algorithm types
optional and possibly even optionally custom (supplied by the user). I can
see where this will be important to me in the near future.

Thanks, Peter

> You'd want two threads in the collector.  First thread collects data,
> > prepares workloads, sends to second thread.  Second thread listens on
> > REP socket, pops workloads and sends them as replies.
>
> That certainly makes sense.
>
>
> > Let me know if you want a worked example, I'm thinking this could make
> > a nice example for the tutorial of inter-thread signalling.
>
> I appreciate the offer, but don't worry about making up an example unless
> you were already planning to do so for the purpose of a tutorial.
>
> Thanks a bunch for the feedback on this.
>
> Mike
>
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