Re: epoll (was Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5)

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:37:08 -0400


On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:18:20AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Alan, could you provide a code snipped to show how easy it is and how well
> it fits a 1:N ( one task/thread , N connections ) architecture ? And
> looking at Ben's presentation about benchmarks ( and for pipe's ), you'll
> discover that both poll() and AIO are "a little bit slower" than
> sys_epoll. Anyway I do not want anything superflous added to the kernel
> w/out reason, that's why, beside the Ben's presentation, there're curretly
> people benchmarking existing solutions.

That's why I was hoping async poll would get fixed to have the same
performance characteristics as /dev/epoll. But.... :-/

-ben

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