Hi,
According to numbers: kevent compared to epoll resulted in the folllowing numbers: kevent: more than 2600 requests per second (trivial web server) epoll: about 1600-1800 requests. Number of errors for 3k bursts of connections with 30K connections total in 10seconds: kevent: about 2k errors. epoll: upto 15k errors.
If it beats the great epoll, it means a real business case for kevent. All previous attempts in kernel as well as by glibc and other userland emulations to provide some real AIO infrastructure and API for server applications with performance benefits, were not too much successful. Heavy load networking servers are normally not using AIOs on linux due to low performance.
From another side Windows have a very strong I/O completion ports API,
which are widely used for the most heavy load applications. Kevent may take linux servers productivity forward in general as well as encourage moving aio-applications from windows to linux. -- Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Iakobashvili, coroberti at gmail dot com Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse. ------------------------------------------------------------------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
