Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:43:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections |
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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.
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