Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:28:29 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.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: <19990704152829.W709@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990703233119.17254@right.PCS>; from Jonathan Lemon on Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 11:31:20PM -0500 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> <19990703233119.17254@right.PCS>
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On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:31:20 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote: > 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? Yes, this is the one. > 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. Good. I thought the paper (presented by Gaurav Banga) was quite interesting, but I wasn't convinced it was the only way to do it. Unfortunately, I haven't found time to look at it in more detail. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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