Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> The mantra of F_SETSIG is that you never ever
> have to do anything unscalable like polling on every fd you have open
> when only a few have activity. The poll() you describe above is a
> single non-blocking poll on one single fd, which doesn't have the
> scalability problems inherent in making your whole event loop revolve
> around poll().
On that theme, the form of accept2() where you provide a pre-prepared
socket recycled from a previously shut down client has another
scalability advantage:
The kernel does not have to search the fd array to find the smallest
free fd value.
-- Jamie
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