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From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: "Christopher K. St. John" <cks@distributopia.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /dev/yapoll : Re: [PATCH] /dev/epoll update ...
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:36:23 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010921143623.davidel@xmailserver.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BABA15A.57255E63@distributopia.com>


On 21-Sep-2001 Christopher K. St. John wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>> 
>> By reporting the initial state of the connection will
>> make /dev/epoll to be a hybrid interface
>>
> 
>  Yes, but you need that anyway (see below)
> 
> 
>> and looks pretty crappy to me.
>>
> 
>  It turns out that a hybrid interface is needed
> in any case to handle overload. When the queues
> start to fill up, you need to back off and start
> basically doing something like a plain-old-poll()
> instead. Ref the paper. Here's a link to a kernel
> list dicussion that covers similiar ground:

Now, my question born spontaneously :

"Did you read and understood the /dev/epoll code ?"

If yes, could you explain to me a case where /dev/epoll users have
to fall back doing "plain-old-poll()" ?



- Davide


  reply	other threads:[~2001-09-21 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-21  6:22 [PATCH] /dev/epoll update Dan Kegel
2001-09-21 18:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-21 19:40   ` /dev/yapoll : " Christopher K. St. John
2001-09-21 20:10     ` Davide Libenzi
2001-09-21 20:21       ` Christopher K. St. John
2001-09-21 21:36         ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2001-09-21 21:33           ` Christopher K. St. John
2001-09-21 21:52             ` Davide Libenzi

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