On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 19:29, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
> Better to fix the API. The kernel has more information than user space
> and can do a better job. In the kernel, the problem can be fixed once
> and for all, not over and over again in each different wrapper library.
> It's not even as if the change would break programs correctly written
> to the old API, not that we particularly care about programs written to
> the old API.
I think a chunk of the poll scaling problem is better addressed by
futexes. If I can say "this futex list for this fd for events X Y and Z"
I can construct almost all the efficient stuff I need out of the futex
interfaces, much like doing it with SIGIO setting flags but a lot less
clocks
Alan
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