On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:53:40PM +0800, Kacheong Poon wrote: > > If the traffic is not evenly > > distributed, more system calls are required, to the point where > > 2 system calls are required per message if all the traffic > > arrives on a single socket. > > The same as today's apps. A "work around" for this is that the list > can contain more than one rd_list for the same socket. If there is > only one message available, only one of them will be filled in.
This is the kind of detail that turns out to be really important - it places requirements on the implementation of the application (for example, one can't simply pass each element of the rd_list to a thread for processing as there are ordering dependencies between the elements). dme. _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
