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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()? -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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