jeriksson

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   by jeriksson 9y ago

   There are no sockets in ffwd - everything is done by shared memory within a single process. By "round trip", we refer to communication latency across the CPU interconnect.
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   by jeriksson 9y ago

   You are right, the "data structure threads", which we call servers, poll on requests in a busy loop. If your data structures aren't very busy, dedicating a thread to serving the data structures may not be a good trade-off, in
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   by jeriksson 9y ago

   Combining is a type of delegation, where threads alternate taking on the role of the "server" in a conventional client-server delegation scheme.
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   by jeriksson 9y ago

   (author here) Yes, there are multiple responses in each cache line, reducing interconnect bandwidth requirements, and conserving precious store buffer resources on the server core.