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From: Dan Kegel <dank@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@biederman.org>,
	Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:48:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39F8A697.DD9CA433@alumni.caltech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010261951.MAA18919@pachyderm.pa.dec.com>

Jim Gettys wrote:
> So I want an interface in which I can get as many events as possible
> at once, and one in which the events themselves can have appropriate
> aggregation behavior.  It isn't quite clear to me if the proposed interface
> would have this property.

I believe get_event, /dev/poll, and kqueue all share this property.  
e.g. none of them will present multiple POLLIN events per fd per call.  
Is that what you meant?

- Dan
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-26 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010241121340.1704-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
     [not found] ` <39F61766.FC5D2D81@alumni.caltech.edu>
     [not found]   ` <39F6A412.DE378865@idb.hist.no>
     [not found]     ` <39F7054C.72FB3EA8@alumni.caltech.edu>
     [not found]       ` <m1aebs9i74.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
2000-10-26 16:20         ` Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable? Dan Kegel
2000-10-26 16:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-26 19:51             ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-26 21:48               ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2000-10-27 13:56               ` Chris Swiedler
2000-10-27  0:47             ` Dan Kegel
     [not found] <local.mail.linux-kernel/39F8D09B.F55AD0FD@alumni.caltech.edu>
     [not found] ` <local.mail.linux-kernel/Pine.LNX.4.10.10010260936330.2460-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
2000-10-27  1:35   ` Jonathan Lemon
2000-10-28  0:46 John Gardiner Myers
     [not found] <39F529CC.2538300@alumni.caltech.edu>
2000-10-30 22:22 ` Mike Jagdis
2000-11-01 16:09   ` Dan Kegel

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