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Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Re: PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMPnetwork performance
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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:07:24 -0500
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
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> The /dev/epoll patch is good, but the interface is different enough
> from /dev/poll that ircd would need a new engine_epoll.c anyway.
> (It would look like a cross between engine_devpoll.c and engine_rtsig.c,
> as it would need to be notified by os_linux.c of any EWOULDBLOCK return values.
> Both rtsigs and /dev/epoll only provide 'I just became ready' notification,
> but no 'I'm not ready anymore' notification.)

I don't understand what it is you're saying here.  The ircu server uses
non-blocking sockets, and has since long before EfNet and Undernet branched,
so it already handles EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN intelligently, as far as I know.
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>

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