Re: aio

[Davide Libenzi]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > it's not a fair comparison. The system was set up to not exhibit any async
> > IO load. So a pure, atomic sendfile() outperformed TUX slightly, where TUX
> > did something slightly more complex (and more RFC-conform as well - see
> > Date: caching in X12 for example). Not something i'd call a proof - this
> > simply works around the async IO interface. (which RT-signal driven,
> > fasync-helped async IO interface, as phttpd has proven, is not only hard
> > to program and is unrobust, it also performs *very badly*.)
>
> Proper wrapper code can make them (almost) easy to program with.
> See http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/doc/Poller_sigio.html for an example
> of a wrapper that automatically handles the fallback to poll() on overflow.
> Using this wrapper I wrote ftp clients and servers which use a thin wrapper
> api that lets the user choose from select, poll, /dev/poll, kqueue/kevent, and RT signals
> at runtime.

Hey, you forgot /dev/epoll, the fastest one :)

- Davide