Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:    Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Oh, I agree.
> 
> And I think something like CLONE_EVENTS would be fine - and decide
> yourself what kind of threads you want (do you want indistinguishable
> "anonymous" threads like apache, or do you want a threads that handle
> separate event queues). Or you might have a mixture of the two - for web
> serving the "accept()" event list might be a separate thing with a few
> threads doing that, while "worker threads" handle the actual IO..
> 
> But if you want to have some event queue ID, I just wonder how you'd set
> it up sanely without tons of complications..
> 

How about handle the event queue ID as an event mask internally?

        -hpa
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