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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:54:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: epoll (was Re: [PATCH] async poll for 2.5)
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, John Gardiner Myers wrote:

>
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> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> >Ok, this pretty much stops every attempt to test/compare AIO with sys_epoll ...
> >
> It would be useful to compare async poll (the patch that started this
> thread) with sys_epoll.  sys_epoll is expected to perform better since
> it ignores multithreading issues and amortizes registration across
> multiple events, but it would be interesting to know by how much.

I think this can be done, David Stevens ( IBM ) already proposed me the
patch to test.



- Davide


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