Re: aio

Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-20T06:00:44Z

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:39:10PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> How about faster select and poll?
>
> You don't need faster select and poll as demonstrated by the
> userspace "faster than TUX" example above.

Step back for a moment. I know of phttpd and zeus. They both have
a serious problem: they fall down when the load on the system exceeds
the capabilities of the cpu. If you'd bother to take a look at the
aio api I'm proposing, it has less overhead under heavy load as events
get coalesced. Even then, the overhead under light load is less than
signals or select or poll.

-ben
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