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sys_epoll - making poll fast

sys_epoll - making poll fast

Posted Oct 31, 2002 8:08 UTC (Thu) by johnchx (guest, #4262)
In reply to: sys_epoll - making poll fast by cpeterso
Parent article: sys_epoll - making poll fast

I'd like to hear more about how this approach compares with asynchronous reads and writes from/to sockets. Doesn't the ability to do async i/o reduce the need for a scalable select()-style mechanism?


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