kqueue and polling ... are they related?
ke.han
ke.han at redstarling.com
Thu Oct 27 04:55:22 PDT 2005
> None of these have any relation to polling of the network interfaces as
> described in the polling(4) manpage.
> The only connection between poll(2) and polling(4) is that they have similar
> names.
>
>
> So, to answer your question: No, you do not need to have polling enabled in
> order to use kqueue.
>
thanks for the quick response...
Since it appears that polling is meant to help out
performance/scalability, would enabling polling in a system using kqueue
possibly provide addition benefits than not use polling in a (SMP)
system using kqueue??
Also, it appears that polling is just something that needs to be turned
on. i.e. the application does not need to make API calls to take
advantage of polling. Is this true??
thanks, ke han
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