[CAMEL-4531] Expose workerCount parameter of Netty NioServerSocketChannelFactory in Camel-Netty

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.2, 2.9.0
• Component/s: camel-netty

Environment

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• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Willem Jiang
• Reporter: edge wang
• Created: 09/Oct/11 15:29
• Updated: 02/Dec/11 15:13
• Resolved: 24/Oct/11 09:05

Description

Camel-netty component did not implement oio model of netty, we can only use nio one, however it uses default workerCount parameter from Netty, which is cpu_core_threads*2.

This is far from enough when the underlying app is a little bit slow, e.g. a traditional transactional application. In this situation NioWorker threads become an obvious bottle neck.

I think that exposing workerCount is a very practical yet effective way for one to broaden the usage scenario of camel-netty in various network communication/application environment.

I add a workerCount parameter in the configuration, one can use it in the Endpoint URL: "netty:tcp://0.0.0.0:1111?...&workerCount=256&...". I leave the default value to 0 so that one can use Netty default policy by omit the param.

I have tested the patch in a 2 core(4 Threads) machine, using 256 workers, it significantly improves the performance by 15 times, than the default parameter of only 8 workers, while CPU usage only increase 5 times.