[zeromq-dev] Questions

[Martin Sustrik]

Steven,

> For optimum performance on Linux you'll want to look at eventfds, but
> support in current stable distributions is fruity as best as the user
> API was introduced in glibc 2.8, otherwise with kernel 2.6.22+ and
> earlier glibc you have to call it yourself.

Yes, it may be interesting to use eventfd internally for waking up 0MQ 
I/O threads. Have you ever tested latency of eventfd vs. pipe/socketpair?

Martin