On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:48:10AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006, William Ahern wrote:
>  
> > Note that with poll and select you don't lose much by shifting an event in
> > and out of a polling state. However, with things like epoll() and kqueue()
> > you potentially incur a system call everytime you do switch the notification
> > state of each descriptor, which is costly.
> 
> >From my reading of the kqueue code this isn't the case.
> The change is 'bundled up' into the 'changes' array and kept there
> until the next call to kq_dispatch().
> 

Yet another reason why kqueue is superior to epoll? ;)
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