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Cc: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?SmVybmVqIFNpbW9uxI1pxI0=?= <jernej's-kvm@eternallybored.org>

On 04/05/2010 12:53 AM, Paul Brook wrote:
>
>> Surprising as there are ~10 descriptors being
>> polled, so ~1200 polls per second.  Maybe epoll will help here.
>>      
> I'm not sure where you get 1200 from.  select will be called once per host
> wakeup. i.e. if the USB controller is enabled then 1k times per second due to
> the frame tick.
>    

That was 125 interrupts/sec x 10 fds ('poll' here was the per-file 
callback in the kernel, not the select call).  With your numbers, it's 
more like 10k polls/sec which can be eliminated.

> Are you sure there are actually 10 descriptors being polled? Remember that the
> nfds argument is the value of the largest fd in the set (+1), not the number
> of descriptors in the set.
>    

I was estimating from the strace parsed output, the real number is 7.  
So the kernel calls 7k callbacks/sec only to return with a timeout.

-- 
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