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Redis 6.0 introduced Threaded I/O. What specific part of the Redis execution pipeline was multi-threaded in this update?
- A The primary Command Execution engine itself, allowing for concurrent writes to the same shared memory buffer.
- B The Network I/O and protocol parsing layers, which handle reading from and writing to the client sockets.
- C The asynchronous Read commands, which were offloaded to background threads to ensure 100% linear read scalability.
- D The Write-Ahead Log (WAL) persistence process, which now uses a dedicated threadpool for all disk-based I/O.
Answer: B. The Network I/O and protocol parsing layers, which handle reading from and writing to the client sockets.
Redis logic remains single-threaded to keep it simple and race-free. The 'bottleneck' was often the kernel-level socket work. By offloading the pushing of bytes to helper threads, the main thread can cycle through commands much faster.
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