adri wrote:
> The devpoll interface exists on solaris 7 (patched) + solaris 8, and
> there is linux support for it I believe. It is another event driven
> IO mechanism which should increase performance on platforms which
> can support it (just like kqueue under FreeBSD).
There are conflicting reports on the effectiveness of devpoll on Linux..
In some uses poll() is faster for large amounts of filedescriptors. It
all depends on the amount of ready filedescriptors I presume.
Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 21:55:02 MDT
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