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From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>, Arjen Wolfs <arjen@euro.net>,
	coder-com@undernet.org, feedback@distributopia.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Coder-Com] Re: PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMPnetwork performance
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 00:10:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202040510.AAA21897@multics.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:25:03 PST." <3C5DFF0F.3B5EFFC0@kegel.com>

> > If I'm reading Poller_sigio::waitForEvents correctly, the rtsig stuff at
> > least tries to return a list of which sockets have become ready, and your
> > implementation falls back to some other interface when the signal queue
> > overflows.  It also seems to extract what state the socket's in at that
> > point.
> > 
> > If that's true, I confess I can't quite see your point even still.  Once
> > the event is generated, ircd should read or write as much as it can, then
> > not pay any attention to the socket until readiness is again signaled by
> > the generation of an event.  Sorry if I'm being dense here...
> 
> If you actually do read or write *until an EWOULDBLOCK*, no problem.
> If your code has a path where it fails to do so, it will get stuck,
> as no further readiness events will be forthcoming.  That's all.

Ah ha!  And you may indeed have a point there...
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-04  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-29 18:00 PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMP network performance Dan Kegel
2002-01-29 20:09 ` Vincent Sweeney
2002-01-31  5:24   ` Dan Kegel
     [not found]     ` <001d01c1aa8e$2e067e60$0201010a@frodo>
2002-02-03  8:03       ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-03  8:36         ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-04 14:57           ` [Coder-Com] " Darren Smith
2002-02-04 17:41             ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04 18:11               ` Darren Smith
2002-02-04 18:30                 ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04 18:48                   ` Kev
2002-02-04 18:59                     ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04 18:53                   ` Doug McNaught
2002-02-08 22:11                 ` James Antill
2002-02-12 18:48           ` Vincent Sweeney
2002-02-03 19:22         ` Kev
     [not found]       ` <5.1.0.14.2.20020203173247.02c946e8@pop.euronet.nl>
2002-02-03 19:16         ` [Coder-Com] Re: PROBLEM: high system usage / poor SMPnetwork performance Dan Kegel
2002-02-04  0:07           ` Kev
2002-02-04  0:37             ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-04  0:59               ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  1:16                 ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-04  1:30                   ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  1:38                     ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-04  4:38                       ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  5:35                         ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-04  5:43                           ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  6:11                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-04  6:26                   ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  6:29                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-04  6:39                       ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  2:55               ` Kev
2002-02-04  3:25                 ` Dan Kegel
2002-02-04  4:47                   ` Aaron Sethman
2002-02-04  5:10                   ` Kev [this message]

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