Re: ioevent queues (was Re: Proposed new poll2() syscall)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:28:28 +0100 (BST)


> FreeBSD added WAKE_UP_ONE as the default for accept(), I doubt they
> changed select() at all. Single socket servers are far easier to deal
> with -- and Apache does have a single socket special case (well, my

Yes I looked at that. Doing WAKE_UP_ONE is pretty hard and its something
to do for the whole kernel not as FreeBSD has done a special case. I don't
think that will happen until SGI Linux hits the big boxes (with 80 CPU's
wake_up_one is a requirement ;))

Alan