Transfer a tcp handle between main thread and worker thread

[Ariel Machado]

Hi folks!

I would like to know the correct way to pass the tcp handle of a connection to another thread that will read / write this handle.

The idea is, on the main thread, listen and accept new connections. These connections are validated using a handshake protocol on this same thread and if everything is ok, that connection is added to a queue that will be processed by another thread.

Currently in raw sockets I can simply pass the socket file descriptor between threads, but in libuv I've been seeing examples where it uses IPC pipes and uv_write2.

But in my case what I need to do is a inter-thread handle communication but not an inter-process communication.
I think that the boilerplate and overhead of ipc pipes, (listen, write, read ipc's) just to pass a handle within the same process should not be the correct approach ... or should it?

I would like  to get your feedback.

Thank you!

[Tom Zhou]

AFAIK, libuv is using non-blocking and single thread IO model. No need handle tcp connection in another thread. 

if you want to utilize multiple-core CPU, you can try spawn multiple libuv process instead of multiple thread to handle tcp io.

Best regards

  tom zhou

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[Ariel Machado]

Hi Tom,
In this specific case, it is not about using multi-core CPUs, but about not blocking the main thread with heavy processing tasks, nor passing request / response data for read / write operations between threads.
In addition, spawn multiple process is not always applicable when what you want it to process a FIFO queue of connections sequentially, deals with a single resource like a DB connection, etc.

What I need is a lightweight way to pass an handle of an accepted tcp connection between threads, unregistering it from the main loop an registering it in the worker thread loop.

[tom zhou]

Hi Ariel:

  you may try or check how does node.js implement cluster and work_thread model.

Best regards

   tom zhou