Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1999 23:31:20 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org>, wayne@crb-web.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poll() vs select() Message-ID: <19990703233119.17254@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <19990704135128.U709@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM %2B0930 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907030058240.22384-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <19990704040435.35CD464@overcee.netplex.com.au> <19990703231029.08379@right.PCS> <19990704135128.U709@freebie.lemis.com>
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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
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