Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:02:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:02:19 -0400 Received: from mtao-m02.ehs.aol.com ([64.12.52.8]:37841 "EHLO mtao-m02.ehs.aol.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:50:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:56:43 -0700 From: John Gardiner Myers Subject: Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5 To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Dan Kegel , Benjamin LaHaise , Shailabh Nagar , linux-kernel , linux-aio , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Linus Torvalds , Stephen Tweedie Message-id: <3DAC9D2B.4050309@netscape.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=------------ms030102040601050804000805; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature" X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5985 Lines: 97 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms030102040601050804000805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Davide Libenzi wrote: >There're many ways to have /dev/epoll working in a threaded environment if >you think about it, and no you don't need to have a single thread fetching >events. You can have, if you really like threads, N fetching threads ( >working on N private /dev/epoll fds ), feeding M queues > In such models, you still have to pay the cost of divvying up the events after you receive them. 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