Re: select() efficiency / epoll

[Davide Libenzi]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Davy Durham wrote:

> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > I should mention that the 2.4 patch is old WRT mainline epoll in 2.6 (I 
> > stopped maintaining it when 2.6 went "stable"). I'd definitely suggest to 
> > use 2.6 if you are looking at epoll.
> I am using linux-2.6.11 and glibc-2.3.4  .. and using select() in it's place 
> seems to work fine.  Are there any known issues with say, one thread does 
> epoll_wait()s while other threads may be doing epoll_ctl()s?

There is no known problem in using epoll_ctl() in one thread while another 
does epoll_wait().
I suggest you to ask Valgrind to take a look at you binary. Since I have 
no clue of what your software does, please create the *minimal* code 
snippet that exploit the eventual problem, and post it.


- Davide

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