Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:14:12 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description. |
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:48:32 +0100 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> > The alternative is the sorry state we have now. In nscd, for instance, > > we have one single thread waiting for incoming connections and it then > > has to wake up a worker thread to handle the processing. This is done > > because we cannot "park" all threads in the accept() call since when a > > new connection is announced _all_ the threads are woken. With the new > > event handling this wouldn't be the case, one thread only is woken and > > we don't have to wake worker threads. All threads can be worker threads. > > Having one specialized thread handling the distribution of work to worker > threads is better most of the time.
It might be now. Think "commodity 128-way". Your single distribution thread will run out of steam.
What Ulrich is proposing is faster. This is a new interface. Let's design it to be fast.
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