Re: RFC: poll change

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 05:06:20PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Andrea Arcangeli <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:03:03 +0200
> 
>    but OTOH the feedback I had was just happy with the 2.4 fix (so I didn't
>    even checked if the 2.4 fix was fully compliant or not..).
> 
> This is why I'm saying there is no practical reason to make
> this change.

Probably there isn't pratical reason agreed.

> The current code can actually improve performance, avoiding needlessly
> scanning fd==-1 entries.

you assume the entries above max_fds are set to -1, while strictly
speaking they don't need to.

Andrea