[2656] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Kerberos NT source code
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Oct 24 18:05:02 1997
To: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 24 Oct 1997 18:04:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of "Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:04:57 -0400"
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mesas.com>
> Date: 22 Oct 1997 10:59:40 -0500
>
>
> Having a per-thread context would be much more reasonable if
> you could move auth contexts from one context to another. You want to
> be able to listen, do a krb_rd_req, queue the request to be handled by
> a worker thread, and have the listener continue its work.
>
> Why not have the worker thread dop the krb_rd_req?
>
> - Ted
Perhaps the listener thread also handles small requests, and passes
off big ones (e.g., db searches) to a limited set of worker threads.
If you have a heavyweight thread system, you won't want one thread per
client, at least not for a heavily used service.
