On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:31:20 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> On Jul 07, 1999 at 01:51:28PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Saturday, 3 July 1999 at 23:10:29 -0500, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
>>> On Jul 07, 1999 at 12:04:35PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>> Is there interest in doing something like this in general?
>>>
>>> YES! As a matter of fact, I've done something similar to this already,
>>> but instead of a queue, it's a variant of poll which passes in and out
>>> "change lists"; a list of fd's which have had status changes since the
>>> last call. I've been trying to bring it up for discussion on the -arch
>>> list, but it's been dead. (I think it was just fixed recently).
>>
>> Did you see the presentation "A scalable and explicit event delivery
>> mechanism for UNIX" at USENIX? It sounded quite interesting. Page
>> 253 of the proceedings.
>
> Is this the paper by Mogul, et al?
Yes, this is the one.
> I didn't make it to USENIX, and don't have the proceedings at hand,
> but my implementation is fairly similar to a series of papers that
> Jeff Mogul has produced regarding web scalability.
Good. I thought the paper (presented by Gaurav Banga) was quite
interesting, but I wasn't convinced it was the only way to do it.
Unfortunately, I haven't found time to look at it in more detail.
Greg
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