From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, HPA <hpa@zytor.com>,
Eilon Greenstien <eilong@broadcom.com>,
Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>,
Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
Eliezer Tamir <eliezer@tamir.org.il>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v9 net-next 5/7] net: simple poll/select low latency socket poll
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:00:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1370440808.24311.254.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B7270@saturn3.aculab.com>
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 14:49 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > I am a bit uneasy with this one, because an applicatio polling() on one
> > thousand file descriptors using select()/poll(), will call sk_poll_ll()
> > one thousand times.
>
> Anything calling poll() on 1000 fds probably has performance
> issues already! Which is why kevent schemes have been added.
>
You'll be surprised but many applications still use poll(),
and not epoll() or whatever OS specific interface, because they
are non portable or buggy. (I played with FreeBSD and kevent crashed
easily at 64,000 fds, while the epoll() version reached 4,000,000 fds
with no problems)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-05 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-05 10:34 [PATCH v9 net-next 0/7] net: low latency Ethernet device polling Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 10:34 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 1/7] net: add napi_id and hash Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:18 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 10:34 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 2/7] net: add low latency socket poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 15:28 ` Willem de Bruijn
2013-06-05 15:31 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 15:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 15:30 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 15:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 15:46 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 15:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-06 12:50 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 10:34 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 3/7] udp: add low latency socket poll support Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 10:34 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 4/7] tcp: " Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 10:34 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 5/7] net: simple poll/select low latency socket poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 13:41 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 14:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 14:56 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 15:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-06-05 15:47 ` Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 13:49 ` David Laight
2013-06-05 14:00 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-06-05 10:35 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 6/7] ixgbe: add support for ndo_ll_poll Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-05 10:35 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 7/7] ixgbe: add extra stats " Eliezer Tamir
2013-06-07 21:48 ` [PATCH v9 net-next 0/7] net: low latency Ethernet device polling David Miller
2013-06-08 18:06 ` Eliezer Tamir
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