I have to handle information from 100 ports in parallel for 100ms per second.
I am using Ubuntu OS.
I did some research and i saw that poll() function is a good candidate, to avoid to open 100 threads to handle in parallel data coming on udp protocol.
I did main part with boost and I tried to integrate poll() with boost.
The problem is when i am trying to send by client data to the server, I receive nothing. According to wireshark, data are coming on the right host. (localhost, port 1234)
Did I miss something or did I put something wrong ?
The test code (server) :
#include <deque>
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <thread>
#include <sys/poll.h>
#include <boost/optional.hpp>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/bind/bind.hpp>
using boost::asio::ip::udp;
using namespace boost::asio;
using namespace std::chrono_literals;
std::string ip_address = "127.0.0.1";
template<typename T, size_t N>
size_t arraySize( T(&)[N] )
{
return(N);
}
class UdpReceiver
{
using Resolver = udp::resolver;
using Sockets = std::deque<udp::socket>;
using EndPoint = udp::endpoint;
using Buffer = std::array<char, 100>; // receiver buffer
public:
explicit UdpReceiver()
: work_(std::ref(resolver_context)), thread_( [this]{ resolver_context.run(); })
{ }
~UdpReceiver()
{
work_ = boost::none; // using work to keep run active always !
thread_.join();
}
void async_resolve(udp::resolver::query const& query_) {
resolver_context.post([this, query_] { do_resolve(query_); });
}
// callback for event-loop in main thread
void run_handler(int fd_idx) {
// start reading
auto result = read(fd_idx, receive_buf.data(), sizeof(Buffer));
// increment number of received packets
received_packets = received_packets + 1;
std::cout << "Received bytes " << result << " current recorded packets " << received_packets <<'\n';
// run handler posted from resolver threads
handler_context.poll();
handler_context.reset();
}
static void handle_receive(boost::system::error_code error, udp::resolver::iterator const& iterator) {
std::cout << "handle_resolve:\n"
" " << error.message() << "\n";
if (!error)
std::cout << " " << iterator->endpoint() << "\n";
}
// get current file descriptor
int fd(size_t idx)
{
return sockets[idx].native_handle();
}
private:
void do_resolve(boost::asio::ip::udp::resolver::query const& query_) {
boost::system::error_code error;
Resolver resolver(resolver_context);
Resolver::iterator result = resolver.resolve(query_, error);
sockets.emplace_back(udp::socket(resolver_context, result->endpoint()));
// post handler callback to service running in main thread
resolver_context.post(boost::bind(&UdpReceiver::handle_receive, error, result));
}
private:
Sockets sockets;
size_t received_packets = 0;
EndPoint remote_receiver;
Buffer receive_buf {};
io_context resolver_context;
io_context handler_context;
boost::optional<boost::asio::io_context::work> work_;
std::thread thread_;
};
int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
UdpReceiver udpReceiver;
udpReceiver.async_resolve(udp::resolver::query(ip_address, std::to_string(1234)));
//logic
pollfd fds[2] { };
for(int i = 0; i < arraySize(fds); ++i)
{
fds[i].fd = udpReceiver.fd(0);
fds[i].events = 0;
fds[i].events |= POLLIN;
fcntl(fds[i].fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
}
// simple event-loop
while (true) {
if (poll(fds, arraySize(fds), -1)) // waiting for wakeup call. Timeout - inf
{
for(auto &fd : fds)
{
if(fd.revents & POLLIN) // checking if we have something to read
{
fd.revents = 0; // reset kernel message
udpReceiver.run_handler(fd.fd); // call resolve handler. Do read !
}
}
}
}
return 0;
}

