On 16/01/2013 12:05, Remy Maucherat wrote: > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:43 +0000, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> Using multiple pollsets is only needed on some platforms (Windows ...), >>> and it is possible it is not supposed to be mandatory now (Windows >>> should be able to handle large pollsets now). So if you accept to drop >>> support for running production on older things (ex: XP), it can be >>> simplified. To be confirmed though ;) >> >> Tempting... >> >> XP is still my primary development environment and only this week I >> found the solution to the hardware compatibility issue that was stopping >> me upgrading. >> >> If XP has an issue (which doesn't surprise me at all) then I suspect >> Server 2003 will have the same problem. That is supported until (at >> least) July 2015 so I think dropping support (as much as I like deleting >> code) is a little premature. > > It is not really a bug: only the newer Windows (Vista+) have efficient > polling. With previous versions, small pollsets have to be used because > (apparently) it can only poll over 64 sockets at a time. If the size is > over 1000, there is a big performance impact. It is supposed to be > handled well in APR (using the new APIs if available). > > Source: Mladen some time ago. Hopefully, I understood everything > correctly ;)
It looks like lifting your new Poller implementation (and associated supporting classes) will be the quickest way forward at this point. Am I correct in assuming you are happy for me to do that? Cheers, Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
