Write batching

["이희승 (Trustin Lee)"]

On 08/17/2009 11:07 AM, 이희승 (Trustin Lee) wrote:
> On 08/14/2009 08:10 AM, Yang Zhang wrote:
>> Is there any way to batch up outgoing messages at a level near the 
>> socket and control when they are sent (e.g. when a buffer fills up, when 
>> some time expires, etc.)?  Is there a channel handler that does this, or 
>> would this not be fitting for the pipeline architecture?  (We're trying 
>> to reduce the number of syscalls, so Nagle's algorithm would not help 
>> very much here.)
> 
> I think you can implement it as a ChannelHandler.  There's no such
> implementation yet but it should be possible.  If not possible, I'd
> consider it as a design flaw and should be fixed.

Here's the JIRA issue.  Please feel free to contribute if you are
interested:

  * http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/Netty

Cheers,
Trustin