Re: Analogue of Windows I/O completion ports on Linux?

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 09/24/05 

Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:48:08 +0200

In comp.os.linux.development.system David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:

> "Erik de Castro Lopo" <nospam@mega-nerd.com> wrote in message
> news:4334EE0C.2B60937A@mega-nerd.com...

>> If you want performance you should forget about what windows does and find
>> out how to best do it on Linux.

> True.

>> On Linux I think you will probably maximize
>> performance by using blocking I/O with select() in a single thread.

> Oh god no. All that has to happen is one client does something unusual
> that requires you to fault in some code that hasn't run yet or has been
> oppurtunistically paged out.

Well, you could lock the process in memory, then! If you can't afford
to swap it, you can't swap it.

Peter

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