From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 3 21:31:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [208.139.222.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6706014C59 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 21:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28235; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 23:31:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id XAA21834; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 23:31:20 -0500 Message-ID: <19990703233119.17254@right.PCS> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 23:31:20 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Greg Lehey Cc: Peter Wemm , "Brian F. Feldman" , wayne@crb-web.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poll() vs select() References: <19990704040435.35CD464@overcee.netplex.com.au> <19990703231029.08379@right.PCS> <19990704135128.U709@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <19990704135128.U709@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:10:29 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > > On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Is there interest in doing something like this in general? > > > > YES! As a matter of fact, I've done something similar to this already, > > but instead of a queue, it's a variant of poll which passes in and out > > "change lists"; a list of fd's which have had status changes since the > > last call. I've been trying to bring it up for discussion on the -arch > > list, but it's been dead. (I think it was just fixed recently). > > Did you see the presentation "A scalable and explicit event delivery > mechanism for UNIX" at USENIX? It sounded quite interesting. Page > 253 of the proceedings. Is this the paper by Mogul, et al? I didn't make it to USENIX, and don't have the proceedings at hand, but my implementation is fairly similar to a series of papers that Jeff Mogul has produced regarding web scalability. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message