Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:56:47 +0100 | From | Martin Waitz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll |
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hi :)
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:14:19AM -0800, Hanna Linder wrote: > The results of our testing show not only does the system call > interface to epoll perform as well as the /dev interface but also that epoll > is many times better than standard poll. No other implementations of poll > have performed as well as epoll in any measure. Testing details and results > are published here, please take a minute to check it out: http://lse.sourceforge.net/epoll/index.html how does this compare to the kqueue mechanism found in {Free,Net}BSD? (see http://people.freebsd.org/~jlemon/papers/kqueue.pdf)
i especially like their combined event update/event wait, needing only one syscall per poll while building a changelist in userspace...
a replacement for poll/select is _really_ needed. but i think we should use existing interfaces if possible, to reduce the changes needed in userspace.
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