Concurrency models (was: Timer)

[Michael Sparks]

Hi,


On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Alan Kennedy wrote:

> While reading about the C10K problem, I came across a great academic
> paper about architecting high-performance network servers using a
> combination of event-driven and threaded architectures, with a
> specially defined IPC mechanism to tie it all together. It involved
> the nice concept of "back pressure" (my words), whereby when a
> component became saturated it could notify the event-scheduler, and
> cut-off the sources of requests.
>
> I'd love to find that paper again.

Was it any of the papers listed here ?
   * http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/17325/298025

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/532228.html perhaps? (Though the overcommital
handling sounds more like a side effect rather than explicit notifcation
to the scheduler)

Regards,


Michael.