[zeromq-dev] Efficiency for very few short messages

[dan smith]

Jason,

Thanks a lot for taking a look at it.

As for the "while(nfinish > 0" loop, my experience is that it does not have
significant effect on the time. If I remove it and allow the threads to
die, the difference is negligible. In the real application the threads
needs to remain alive of course, I just tried to check that the thread
closing is not the reason.

Closing the sockets in threads might not be the reason either, a
terminating message is sent back to the main thread before that.

I use zeromq-3.2.2.

In the real application I am sending a pointer, here the 8 As simulate that.

I am looking forward to your further comments very much. Hope that I am the
one who made some mistake and there is a solution for sending few small
messages at the latency that I measured for large number of messages (that
was under 1 microseconds which would be cool)


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Jason Smith <jason.nevar.smith at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 23 January 2013 11:42, dan smith <dan25311 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> while(nfinish > 0)
>
>
> Haven't had a chance to compile this here. For some reason have a linker
> issue on my work machine.
>
> At first glance the "while(nfinish > 0)" loop assumes sequential thread
> completion for best time. For example you only know of thread 7 finishing
> only until 1 through to 6 have completed. Don't know if this is affecting
> things drastically or not. Maybe switching to polling here and updating a
> "completed" vector list might work better.
>
> Another area I would look into is the linger of the sockets, it shouldn't
> affect closing them down within the thread however its something to
> consider.
>
> When I get a chance I would be looking to place more asserts in to make
> sure messages were doing what I thought they were (send and receive calls
> return values). Then I would be checking the timing of any close down code.
>
> Hope this helps in the meantime.
>
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