Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:43:48 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Steve Underwood wrote:
> The scalability web site refers to a "hinting" feature that is in progress,
> but the description is not very detailed. Is this, in fact, an
> implementation of Gaurav's design?

nope. the "hinting" patch provides a callback in the poll()
implementation so that device drivers can call poll() when I/O is ready.
this way poll() doesn't have to loop; it can simply wait instead.

- Chuck Lever

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