Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Aug 2002 16:44:40 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux] |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > And threads can do queued events that amortizes context switch > > overhead, while queued signals generate per-event signal delivery, so > > signal delivery costs are not amortized. > > > > (Not that i advocate SIGIO or helper threads for highperformance IO - > > Ben's aio interface is the fastest and most correct approach.) > > Isn't the per-event queued signal cost amortised when using sigwaitinfo()?
Of course I meant:
Isn't the per-event queued signal cost amortised when using sigtimedwait()?
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