> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > "Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > > A little bird told me that FD_ZERO() burns lots of cycles in
> > > > apr_wait_for_io_or_timeout().  It turns out that this is an easy
> > > > conversion to poll(), which doesn't have such overhead in the
> > > > interface.
> > > >
> > > > This works for me with some testing (timeouts on read and write
> work
> > > > for me).
> > >
> > > Can we remove the #ifdef's by just using apr_poll here?
> >
> > I'd rather we not, since that introduces a fair amount of extra
> > overhead.
>
> Then let's get rid of the overhead.  If we don't use apr_poll, then the
> overhead is maintenance, because we have abstracted out the poll/select
> difference twice in the code.

I'd rather pay the maintenance overhead on this code. BTW, testing on AIX
yields up to a 9% increase in throughput with this patch (serving 500 byte
file out of mod_mem_cache). Huge win for a small change!

Bill

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