Re: async-io network / future Squid design

Danilov Nikita wrote:

> That was exactly the idea behind signals. In poll/select amount of
> work have to be done depends on the total number of file descriptors,
> and when you use signals it depends on the number of fds ready to be
> read from/written to, that is, scales much better.

Possibly true, unless the signal overflows or there is a lot of work
involved in the delivery of the signal.

> Approximately the same thing is described in

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix99/full_papers/banga/banga_html/index.html

Thanks. Will check it out.

/Henrik
Received on Tue Sep 19 2000 - 16:06:18 MDT