Re: Poll-splitting

Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> > Okay, now _this_ is a little odd....Further to my email about splitting
> > poll() structures into groups according to the likelyhood of getting a
> > ready-response, I thought..well..hey, tcp connections are buffered in
> > the kernel. We can probably get _some_ performance improvement by only
> > calling poll on (say) a third to a quarter of the descriptors per pass,
> > and letting the kernel buffers take up the slack for the ones we pass
> > over until a later poll.
>
> FWIW, I looked into something similar to spread the load over
> multiple processors on SMP systems.
>
> -cw

Actually, now that's something I hadn't considered. Hmm.

D
Received on Mon Nov 29 1999 - 14:45:47 MST