From: Josh Soref Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 14:48:30 +0000 (-0400) Subject: clarify: reuseports behavior re worker threads X-Git-Tag: dnsdist-1.5.0-rc3~38^2~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3799291d300bac294f2b547ed61538bbca27bbc;p=thirdparty%2Fpdns.git clarify: reuseports behavior re worker threads --- diff --git a/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst b/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst index fe584cc131..d44fc5cf6d 100644 --- a/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst +++ b/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst @@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@ Don't log queries. If ``SO_REUSEPORT`` support is available, allows multiple threads and processes to open listening sockets for the same port. -Since 4.1.0, when ``pdns-distributes-queries`` is set to false and ``reuseport`` is enabled, every thread will open a separate listening socket to let the kernel distribute the incoming queries instead of running a distributor thread (which could otherwise be a bottleneck) and avoiding thundering herd issues, thus leading to much higher performance on multi-core boxes. +Since 4.1.0, when ``pdns-distributes-queries`` is set to false and ``reuseport`` is enabled, every worker-thread will open a separate listening socket to let the kernel distribute the incoming queries instead of running a distributor thread (which could otherwise be a bottleneck) and avoiding thundering herd issues, thus leading to much higher performance on multi-core boxes. .. _setting-rng: