Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/4] net: low latency Ethernet device polling

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 15:29 +0300, Eliezer Tamir wrote:
> Many of the questions you asked are covered in our RFC cover letter, but 
> I will touch them briefly
> 
> On 21/05/2013 15:06, Alex Rosenbaum wrote:
> > 1. It seem this patch does not cover epoll/select and such IO muxing APIs?
> 
> We are thinking about how to implement epoll support as one of the next 
> steps.
>
> What benchmarks are you using to test poll/select/epoll?
[...]

I raised this issue back at Plumbers and I thought Jesse said poll() was
covered.  It's likely to be a bit of a toy without that.  Also, UDP?

Solarflare uses a wide range of benchmarks.  Of the publicly available
applications, I believe Ixia Chariot uses (or can use) epoll.

Ben.

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