Overview

Octane is a high performance library that extends libuv to scale and use all the available CPU cores on a system for TCP traffic by using multiple event loops across multiple threads.

Optimizations

• Prefers a thread count that matches physical CPU cores excluding hyper-threaded cores.
• TCP connections pinned to physical CPU cores for low context switching and high L1/L2/L3 cache hits.
• Zero-copy optimizations.
• High performance memory allocators.
  • A high performance lockless memory allocator is available for Linux to scale to higher CPU core counts to reduce CPU contention and stalls between CPU cores.

Raw I/O Benchmarks

Benchmarking raw HTTP request/response throughput we can reach over 17 million requests/second. Keep in mind this benchmark isn't parsing HTTP requests.

./lib/wrk/wrk --script ./benchmark/pipelined.lua --latency -d 60s -t 20 -c 256 http://IP:80 -- 64
Running 1m test @ http://IP:80
  20 threads and 256 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     1.45ms    7.30ms 667.25ms   99.09%
    Req/Sec     0.91M   168.04k    2.40M    71.13%
  Latency Distribution
     50%    1.06ms
     75%    1.80ms
     90%    2.82ms
     99%    7.62ms
  1,086,106,192 requests in 1.01m, 128.46GB read
Requests/sec: 17,886,898.43
Transfer/sec:      2.12GB

Supported Platforms

Platforms supported:

• Linux
• macOS

Windows could be supported pretty easily with a little work.

Compiling

Compiling octane and a hello_world HTTP server example.

make

Compiling benchmarking tools.

make tools

Memory Allocators

You can use LD_PRELOAD to use different memory allocators with octane.

TCMalloc

LD_PRELOAD="./lib/tcmalloc/.libs/libtcmalloc_minimal.so" ./build/hello_world

Lockless

LD_PRELOAD="./lib/lockless_allocator/libllalloc.so.1.3" ./build/hello_world