[erlang-questions] Heavy duty UDP server performance

[Lukas Larsson]

Hello,

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> When we use plain gen_udp to accept 200-400 mbit of incoming MPEG-TS
> traffic in flussonic, we use about 50% of moderate 4 core xeon e3 server.
>
> When we switch to our driver implementation of udp that collapses several
> contiguous udp messages into single big message (it is allowed for mpegts)
> we reduce usage to 15-20%
>
> I can't tell that it is "badly written udp in erlang", just messaging is
> rather expensive.
>

Do you think that it is the batching that makes the performance difference?
In that case do you think adding an option to gen_udp that does batching
would help enough? There is already read_packets as an option, and maybe it
makes sense to have an option that batches all reads done by read_packets
into one erlang message.

i.e. you get something like:

{udp_batch, Socket, IP, InPortNo, [Packets]}

or possibly

{udp_batch, Socket,  [{IP, InPortNo, Packet}]}

Lukas
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