Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 May 2004 22:04:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: epoll question |
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On Wed, 26 May 2004, Vadim Lobanov wrote:
> I have a quick question about the behavior of epoll. My usage scenario is > as follows: > > I add multiple fd's to the epoll set. Some of the fd's will have a lot of > data coming in, while others will have noticeably less. > I start to epoll for events, only letting it return one event at a time > > In this case, will the lesser-active fd's be starved out by the > constantly-active fd's, or will they still be reliably seen?
Nope, even if you extract one fd at a time (???) the itam will be removed from head and, if LT or ET and another event will come soon after, it will be tail queued.
- Davide
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