Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 10:54:00 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6 |
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* Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> I did not want to start with another round of ping-pong insults :), > but, Ingo, you did not show that kevent works worse. I did show that > sometimes it works better. It flawed from 0 to 30% win in that tests, > in results Johann Bork presented kevent and epoll behaved the same. In > results I posted earlier, I said, that sometimes epoll behaved better, > sometimes kevent. [...]
let me refresh your recollection:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/25/116
where you said:
"But note, that on my athlon64 3500 test machine kevent is about 7900 requests per second compared to 4000+ epoll, so expect a challenge."
for a long time you made much fuss about how kevents is so much better and how epoll cannot perform and scale as well (you said various arguments why that is supposedly so), and some people bought into the performance argument and advocated kevent due to its supposed performance and scalability advantages - while now we are down to "epoll and kevent are break-even"?
in my book that is way too much of a difference, it is (best-case) a way too sloppy approach to something as fundamental as Linux's basic event model and design, and it is also compounded by your continued "nothing happened, really, lets move on" stance. Losing trust is easy, winning it back is hard. Let me reuse a phrase of yours: "expect a challenge".
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