[Stackless] Stackless / Networking

[Andrew Francis]

Hello Greg:

--- ghazel at gmail.com wrote:

This discussion is great!

> It's true, but having a scheduled task will prevent
> it from blocking longer than would overlap it.

The problem I see is that the Twisted scheduled task
(a callback) ought to call schedule() to give other
tasklets a chance to run. I don't had a good mental
model of what is happening between between Twisted
callbacks and Stackless tasklets in this scenario.

> The problem with two threads in my opinion is the
> multitude of race conditions and such that arise. If
>you have a good separation between the
> tasklets task and the network tasks, this could be
> ok. But, if you had a tasklet for every connection
>it could get quite difficult to coordinate.

Greg you have a valid argument. In my proposed
solution, Twisted and Stackless communicate through
deques. A single dispatcher (or IOScheduler) stackless
tasklet polls the deque. If the deque is empty it
schedules, giving other tasklets that can run, a
chance to execute. If there is a message, it farms it
out to the appropriate tasklet. I believe this to be a
loosely coupled and rather safe approach.

Again, if I can find coiterator examples, I may try
out this approach to see if it works. I try to strike
a balance research with development :-)

If I can put a dent in my work, I will try to post my
approach on the Wiki by the weekend. Right now, I want
to do some more implementation and testing to see if
my approach actually works. 


Cheers,
Andrew
 




 
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