r982 - trunk/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <ujr3battvhg.fsf at cat.linpro.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgra
v?= writes:
>phk at projects.linpro.no writes:
>> If after handling a request we find anything in our input buffer,
>> don't waste time putting the session on the herder, but go right
>> back and take the next request in the current worker thread.
>
>This should reduce lock contention under high load, shouldn't it?

I think the bigger saving is context switches, basically a void
a write, a read and a context switch for any session which 
pipelines.  This is mostly Opera at this point in time.

I'm considering putting in a .1 second timed read there to give
the other browsers a chance as well.

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