Re: 2.5.69-mm6

From: bert hubert (ahu@ds9a.nl)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 05:04:32 EST


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 01:54:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> +CONFIG_EPOLL.patch
>
> Make epoll disableable.

Please don't! For the same reason as the futexes, turning this off will
randombly break stuff and on a pc it won't give any benefit.

I'd vote for treating this patch just like the futexes one, making sure that
those who know *how* can turn epoll off, but leave it out of make config.

Furthermore, I wonder if this patch is a large savings, the bulk of epoll is
infrastructure, not the few syscalls.

Regards,

bert

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