From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] total-epoll r2 ...
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:17:31 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211021215100.951-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211021126110.951-100000@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com>
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> The new epoll approach to event delivery seems stable on my machine an
> result about performance look pretty good. The changes that the new design
> introduce are :
>
> *) Full support for all devices that support ->f_op->poll()
>
> *) Multi-threaded support ( if you really like them )
>
> *) The function epoll_ctl(EP_CTL_ADD) drops an event if conditions are met
>
> *) Less intrusive design by hooking directly the poll support
>
> *) The patch is smaller, and this is a good news
>
> *) Looks even faster to me
>
> *) The function epoll_create(int size) has been changed. Not the "size"
> parameter is just an hint to the kernel about how to dimension its
> own internal data structures. In theory you can call
> epoll_create(200) and stock 10000 fds inside epoll
*) The old /dev/epoll access has been dropped with this release.
- Davide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-02 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-02 19:40 Davide Libenzi
2002-11-02 20:17 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2002-11-03 13:21 ` bert hubert
2002-11-03 17:30 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-11-03 19:15 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-11-02 21:37 ` bert hubert
2002-11-02 22:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-11-02 22:08 ` bert hubert
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