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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 11:05:01 -0400
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 06:36:45PM -0400, Shailabh Nagar wrote:
> As of today, there is no scalable alternative to poll/select in the 2.5
> kernel even though the topic has been discussed a number of times
> before. The case for a scalable poll has been made often so I won't
> get into that.

Have you bothered addressing the fact that async poll scales worse than 
/dev/epoll?  That was the original reason for dropping it.

		-ben
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