https://wingolog.org/archives/2018/05/16/lightweight-concurrency-in-lua

Hello, all! Today I'd like to share some work I have done recently as part of the Snabb user-space networking toolkit. Snabb is mainly about high-performance packet processing, but it also needs to communicate with management-oriented parts of network infrastructure. These communication needs are performed by a dedicated manager process, but that process has many things to do, and can't afford to make blocking operations.

Snabb is written in Lua, which doesn't have built-in facilities for concurrency. What we'd like is to have fibers. Fortunately, Lua's coroutines are powerful enough to implement fibers. Let's do that!