Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll

[Davide Libenzi]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Dan Kegel wrote:

> Another existing event queue for readiness notification to
> be delivered via is Ben's AIO completion notification queue,
> but I haven't heard a definitive story about whether
> epoll events could be delivered that way.  (The discussion
> seems to always veer into a discussion of asynchronous
> poll, which is something else.)

Yep Dan, Ben proposed that approach that we did not have the time to test.
The way of returning events of sys_epoll is very efficent, like you can
see in the scalability page ( pipetest ) that Hanna and her team setup :

http://lse.sourceforge.net/epoll/index.html

- Davide