Linux® Socket Programming

Chapter 9. Breaking Performance Barriers

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Creating the Servlets Before the Client Arrives

• Extending Control with a Smart Select

• Delving Deeper into Socket Control

• Recovering the Socket Descriptor

• Sending Before Received: Message Interleave

• Noting File I/O Problems

• Using Demand-Based I/O to Recover CPU Time

• Sending High-Priority Messages

• Summary: Pulling Together Performance Features

How do you get everything out of your server or client? Linux has several tools in the Sockets API that make this process relatively straightforward. However, you have to look at the programming problem from several angles at the same time, because each aspect touches on and affects another.

Your network program has three distinct aspects: the task, the connection, ...