Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll

bert hubert
2002-10-28T22:10:53Z

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:02:49PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:56:47PM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote:
>
> > needing only one syscall per poll while building a changelist in
> > userspace...
>
> Which is so smashingly succesful for iptables. I would very much doubt the
> utility of building tables in userspace and them blasting them across,
> especially as they will tend to be large when people bother to use epoll.

Never mind, I should have read what you wrote. Building changesets in
userspace may have some utility.

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