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SubjectRe: [PATCH 20/22] AIO poll
William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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>>>I just did it for OLS. The answer is busywait. i.e. 100% cpu. This is
>>>because you can't use timeouts unless they're unified.
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>On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:24:18PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
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>>That's not a server.
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>It accepted enough client connections and did enough work on behalf of
>its clients to qualify as such.
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>Perhaps you have in mind that such a "solution" is inferior (which it is)?
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Yes. Sorry for being so terse. But busy-waiting isn't acceptable for
anything more than a demonstration, or (extermely) special-purpose
servers, like maybe embedded stuff.

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