On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote:
> With edge-triggered mode, your app is sent notifications only
> when the readiness state of an fd *changes*.  That means
> you never have to tell the OS when your interest mask
> changes, as you manage that yourself in userspace.
> It saves a fair number of syscalls.  This doesn't matter
> unless you're trying to really get close to hardware
> performance.  It's also kind of a large rethink for most

I am still waiting for someone to actually measure that in a
meaningful way.  I doubt edge triggering would matter for any network
application I ever wrote.

Niels.
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