Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:05:01 -0400


On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:36:45PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> As of today, there is no scalable alternative to poll/select in the 2.5
> kernel even though the topic has been discussed a number of times
> before. The case for a scalable poll has been made often so I won't
> get into that.

Have you bothered addressing the fact that async poll scales worse than
/dev/epoll? That was the original reason for dropping it.

-ben
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