Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:34:49 +0100 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections |
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:
> niels provos here at the scalability project has designed a new version of > poll() that provides callbacks to device drivers so that poll() doesn't > have to scan a list, it simply waits for the callbacks. he has ported > this to a late 2.3 kernel, and is testing it. is anyone interested in > helping to test? is this something we want to get into the kernel?
I have something similar that doesn't need any changes to the existing kernel other than a slight change to wait_queue_t and wake_up(). Wanna race? :-)
(Incidentally I've now made a start at putting my stuff up at http://www.purplet.demon.co.uk/linux/select/. The patch, explanation etc. hasn't made it yet, the next/previous links don't work, but the graphs are pretty :-) )
Mike
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