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

[Timo Sirainen]

On 6.9.2004, at 14:00, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:

>> 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..
>
> The mailinglist archive doesn't seem to have archived the
> patch, so I can't check, but what you write above is only
> true when using EPOLLET (edge triggered). When using epoll
> as a drop-in replacement for poll() or select() you probably
> simply shouldn't use EPOLLET.

Ok, I should have read epoll man pages too. I just happened to read 
"the c10k problem" web page where it said epoll being only 
edge-triggered.
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