Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:59:37 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Monitoring file descriptors without switching context |
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> What I really need is some way to have the hardware block and monitor > IO for me. Would it be feasible to implement a special low latency > poll() syscall that uses MONITOR/MWAIT instructions to monitor file > descriptors?
The futex locks are probably the lowest level interface you've got for interlocking between tasks and are very fast. You can also pin tasks to groups of cpus so you can create an I/O only core for example.
Alan
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