Re: Max tcp connections

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:58:47 +0000 (GMT)


> No, continue checking state, but don't add to wait queues. I thought all
> along that the reason poll was so inefficient was because you had to go on
> O(n) wait queues only to be taken off of them if you don't block.

The wait queue add is about 30-40 clocks. It isnt the wait_queue add that
is the issue, its the fact you are doing things for 30,000 handles for every
event on every handle (or at best every pending set of events)

>
> Now, poll itself is O(n), but doing the I/O is going to be O(n) (here n
> represents the number of fds or clients). So we make a call that is O(n)
> with a frequency that is O(1/n). Hence the overall overhead of poll is O(1)
> with respect to the number of active connections. Signals can't touch that
> scalability.

My computer science lecturer would have put a red pen through that and marked
it 0

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