• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.31-42
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• 2020

To accept more than thousands of concurrent players, MMO Game servers should use high performance I/O APIs provided by the OS. Despite the continuous improvement of the I/O models, these new I/O APIs are not applied on the applications immediately. In this study, we proposed a new MMO game server architecture using io_uring, Linux's new I/O model. We implemented the proposed architecture and achieved performance improvements of the server on a stress test benchmark with high concurrent connections.