A multi-threaded PIPELINED Web server architecture for SMP/SoC machines

Design of high performance Web servers has become a recent research thrust to meet the increasing demand of networkbased services. In this paper, we propose a new Web server architecture, called multi-threaded PIPELINED Web server, suitable for Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) or Systemon-Chip (SoC) architectures. The proposed PIPELINED model consists of multiple thread pools, where each thread pool consists of five basic threads and two helper threads. The main advantages of the proposed model are global information sharing by the threads, minimal synchronization overhead due to less number of threads, and non-blocking I/O operations, possible with the helper threads. We have conducted an in-depth performance analysis of the proposed server model along with four prior Web server models (Multi-Process (MP), Multi-Thread (MT), SingleProcess Event-Driven (SPED) and Asynchronous Multi-Process Event-Driven (AMPED)) via simulation using six Web server workloads. The experiments are conducte...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Gyu Sang Choi, Jin-Ha Kim, Deniz Ersoz, Chita R. Das
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Multi-threaded Pipelined Web, Web Server Architecture, Web Server Models, WWW 2005