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Marc Alexander Lehmann 2011-01-10 14:24:26 +00:00
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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ thread usage, coroutine switch?
TODO: frankenpoll
TODO: frankenports
TODO: allow files and so on
4.03
- support files, /dev/zero etc. the same way as select in the epoll
backend, by generating events on our own.

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@ -584,19 +584,21 @@ immensely.
This uses the Solaris 10 event port mechanism. As with everything on Solaris,
it's really slow, but it still scales very well (O(active_fds)).
Please note that Solaris event ports can deliver a lot of spurious
notifications, so you need to use non-blocking I/O or other means to avoid
blocking when no data (or space) is available.
While this backend scales well, it requires one system call per active
file descriptor per loop iteration. For small and medium numbers of file
descriptors a "slow" C<EVBACKEND_SELECT> or C<EVBACKEND_POLL> backend
might perform better.
On the positive side, with the exception of the spurious readiness
notifications, this backend actually performed fully to specification
in all tests and is fully embeddable, which is a rare feat among the
OS-specific backends (I vastly prefer correctness over speed hacks).
On the positive side, this backend actually performed fully to
specification in all tests and is fully embeddable, which is a rare feat
among the OS-specific backends (I vastly prefer correctness over speed
hacks).
On the negative side, the interface is I<bizarre>, with the event polling
function sometimes returning events to the caller even though an error
occured, but with no indication whether it has done so or not (yes, it's
even documented that way) - deadly for edge-triggered interfaces, but
fortunately libev seems to be able to work around it.
This backend maps C<EV_READ> and C<EV_WRITE> in the same way as
C<EVBACKEND_POLL>.