>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
>
Hi Ben,
I didn't address async poll's scalability vs. /dev/epoll because
/dev/epoll isn't in the kernel either. I wasn't sure whether you had a
better async poll
in the making.
Either solution (/dev/epoll or async poll) would be a considerable
improvement over what we have today.
So I guess the question would now be: whats keeping /dev/epoll from
being included in the kernel given the time left before the feature freeze ?
-- Shailabh
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