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timerfd() and system call review

Posted Aug 15, 2007 16:28 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: timerfd() and system call review by clugstj
Parent article: timerfd() and system call review

Speed, I presume. Almost anything can done in a userspace (UML is a proof), the question is "what does it cost". Solution with pipe() and thread will be many times slower...

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