Re: /dev/poll vs. aio_ (was: Re: Proposal: Get rid of most accept mutex)calls on hybrid server.)

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Sat, 29 May 1999 02:55:10 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On 28 May 1999 15:00:23 -0700, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> said:

> "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> writes:
>> However, it would be good to see real life profiling on this.

> Not without having a really good thread library first

Amen to that --- we _need_ CLONE_SIGNALS for this.

> or at least optimizing the aio library.

No, aio_* isn't used in this model: the reads and writes are
non-blocking already, it's just out-of-band activity indicators which we
need. aio_* is only useful for IO which is otherwise blocking.

--Stephen

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