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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Another existing event queue for readiness notification to
> be delivered via is Ben's AIO completion notification queue,
> but I haven't heard a definitive story about whether
> epoll events could be delivered that way.  (The discussion
> seems to always veer into a discussion of asynchronous
> poll, which is something else.)

Yep Dan, Ben proposed that approach that we did not have the time to test.
The way of returning events of sys_epoll is very efficent, like you can
see in the scalability page ( pipetest ) that Hanna and her team setup :

http://lse.sourceforge.net/epoll/index.html



- Davide


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