[Dovecot] [PATCH] [RFC] epoll based ioloop handler

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 6 01:22:00 EEST 2004


On 30.8.2004, at 16:07, Andrey Panin wrote:

> this patch adds ioloop handler using Linux 2.6 epoll API.
> I'm not sure is it ready for inclusion right now, but it
> works for me and survives deadconn test with 1024 simultaneous
> connections.

Hmm. epoll requires that everything is read from the fd or it doesn't 
send another notification. I'm not sure if everything in Dovecot works 
this way. All the I/O handlers should be checked and fixed..
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