High-Performance Request-Handling Programs

1) The C10K problem : http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

Introduce the I/O Strategies (thread/process, block/non-block, level-triggered readiness notification[select/poll]/readiness change notification(edge-triggered)[epoll], synchronous io/asynchronous io )

2) High-Performance Server Architecture: http://pl.atyp.us/content/tech/servers.html

   1. Data copies
   2. Context switches
   3. Memory allocation
   4. Lock contention

3) Asynchronous I/O on linux: http://davmac.org/davpage/linux/async-io.html

Please note that the different between POSIX AIO and Linux AIO