Re: [PATCH 20/22] AIO poll

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 12:33:02 EST


William Lee Irwin III wrote:

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 07:02:50PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:


I second the motion. I don't see how one can write a server which uses both networking and block aio without aio poll.



I just did it for OLS. The answer is busywait. i.e. 100% cpu. This is
because you can't use timeouts unless they're unified.




That's not a server.

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