Threads in PHP - Presentation

Threads in PHP „will changes the world“

Stefan WillkommerCo-Founder and CTO

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Tim WagnerCo-Founder and Lead Architect

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Let’s

DIFFERENTIATE

EVENTLOOPS

FORKS

THREADS

What is a

THREAD

Process-Model without

THREADS

Process-Model with

THREADS

What do we

NEED

PHP 5.3+

compiled thread-safe--enable-maintainer-zts

PECL extensionpthreads

my first

THREAD

my first

THREAD

What is a

STACKABLE

enabling sharing and synchronizingData over THREADS

tasks which can be processedby a WORKER

What can be

SHARED

everything which is

SERIALIZABLE

sharing Data with a

Stackable

sharing Data with a

Stackable

sharing Data with a

Stackable

What is a

WORKER

allows stacking ofDATA

like aQUEUE

using a

Worker

using a

Worker

SYNCHRONISATION and

CONCURRENCY HANDLING

waiting for Threads with

join()

enables waiting for one or moreTHREADS

makes sure that result is available inTHREAD

waiting by using

Join

waiting by using

Join

waiting by using

Join

synchronizing Threads with

synchronized()

synchronize with synchronized()

synchronize with synchronized()

synchronize with

synchronized()

concurrency handling by using

MUTEX

synchronize with

Mutex

synchronize with

Mutex

synchronize with

Mutex

sharing

Resources

sharing Sockets

sharing Sockets

sharing Sockets

What to do with all these

POSSIBILITIES

GOODeverything

is

BAD

RuntimeApplicationServerPersistenceContainer Web

MQ Objects WebServer

Worker Threads

Socket 0.0.0.0:8587

Socket 0.0.0.0:8585

Socket 0.0.0.0:8586

HTTPRemoteMethodMessage

Timer

MBeans SBeans

!

Worker

Performance comparison

Test Profile

Setup: 1 Webserver + 1 DB Server Virtualisation: KVM / Intel Xeon / 4 Cores OS: Debian wheezy Magento: 1.13.1.0 EE Amount of Products: 10,000

mill

isec

onds

0

65

130

195

260

Homepage Category Page Detailpage

AS, mod PHP nginx, PHP FPM

The power of

MEMORY

Performance comparison

Test Profile

Setup: 1 Webserver + 1 DB Server Virtualisation: KVM / Intel Xeon / 4 Cores OS: Debian wheezy Magento: 1.13.1.0 EE Amount of Products: 10,000

mill

isec

onds

0

65

130

195

260

Homepage Category Page Detailpage

AS, Mage Servlet nginx, PHP FPM

60%in average about

faster

280%in average about

faster

What’s

NEXT?

https://github.com/techdivision/phptek_2014

https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads

https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/

http://appserver.io

https://github.com/techdivision/TechDivision_ApplicationServer

Ressources

Thank you!

Questions?