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Message-ID: <465D286E.2080807@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:31:58 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Syslets, Threadlets, generic AIO support, v6
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Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 3 months ago i verified the published kevent vs. epoll benchmark and
> found that benchmark to be fatally flawed. When i redid it properly
> kevent showed no significant advantage over epoll.
I'm not going to judge your tests but saying there are no significant
advantages is too one-sided. There is one huge advantage: the
interface. A memory-based interface is simply the best form. File
descriptors are a resource the runtime cannot transparently consume.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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