Version 6.5.5 of The Server Framework was released today.
This release contains some bug fixes, a selection of minor improvements and support for Visual Studio 11 Beta and Windows 8. If you use either the Read Timeout filter or the Flow Control filter then you should install this update.
This release includes the following, see the release notes, here, for full details of all changes.
Rewrote CFlowControlStreamSocketConnectionFilter to make it more reliable and correct.
When I switched to looking at the performance of the more advanced RIO server designs that use IOCP it quickly became apparent that even multiple 1 Gigabit connections weren’t enough of a challenge to give me any meaningful figures; my traditional IOCP datagram servers were easily able to keep up and increasing the workload per datagram required such high workloads that the tests became meaningless. So, we’ve brought forward the purchase of the hardware that we intended to use for our private cloud scalability testing and we now have 2 Intel 10 Gigabit AT2 cards.
I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Whilst exploring and understanding the new API I spent some time putting together some simple UDP servers using the various notification styles that RIO provides. I then put together some equally simple UDP servers using the “traditional” APIs so that I could compare performance.
Now that we have five example servers, four RIO designs and a traditional polled UDP design, we can begin to look at how the RIO API performs compared to the traditional APIs. Of course these comparisons should be taken as preliminary since we’re working with a beta version of the operating system. However, though I wouldn’t put much weight in the exact numbers until we have a non-beta OS to test on, it’s useful to see how things are coming along and familiarise ourselves with the designs that might be required to take advantage of RIO once it ships.
This article presents the fifth in my series of example servers for comparing the performance of the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking extensions, RIO, and traditional Windows networking APIs. This example server is a traditional polled UDP design that we can use to compare to the RIO polled UDP example server. I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
This article presents the fourth in my series of example servers using the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking extensions, RIO. This example server, like the last example, uses the I/O Completion Port notification method to handle RIO completions, but where the last example used only a single thread to service the IOCP this one uses multiple thread to scale the load . I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
This article presents the third in my series of example servers using the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking extensions, RIO. This example server uses the I/O Completion Port notification method to handle RIO completions, but only uses a single thread to service the IOCP. I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview.
This article presents the second in my series of example servers using the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking extensions, RIO. This example server uses the event driven notification method to handle RIO completions. I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Whilst exploring and understanding the new API I spent some time putting together some simple UDP servers using the various notification styles that RIO provides.
I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Whilst exploring and understanding the new API I spent some time putting together some simple UDP servers using the various notification styles that RIO provides. I then put together some equally simple UDP servers using the “traditional” APIs so that I could compare performance.
I’ve been looking at the Windows 8 Registered I/O Networking Extensions since October when they first made an appearance as part of the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Whilst exploring and understanding the new API I spent some time putting together some simple UDP servers using the various notification styles that RIO provides. I then put together some equally simple UDP servers using the “traditional” APIs so that I could compare performance.
