On Sat, 19 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: > Hi, > > Gathering signals in bulk enables server applications to drain a signal > queue (almost full of realtime signals) more efficiently by reducing the > syscall and file look-up overhead. > > Very similar to the sigtimedwait4() call described by Niels Provos, > Chuck Lever, and Stephen Tweedie in a paper entitled "Analyzing the > Overload Behavior of a Simple Web Server". The paper lists more details > and advantages.
That paper is a pre-epoll thing. Nowadays I see no value in using RT signals as main event gathering mechanism ;) > Signed-off-by: Davi E. M. Arnaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The patch looks otherwise good to me, and I see no reasons why we shoulnd't be fetching more than one signal if available. Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
