[zeromq-dev] Questions

[Martin Hurton]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:28:53PM +0800, Steven McCoy wrote:
> 2008/12/13 Martin Sustrik <sustrik at fastmq.com>:
> >
> > 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
> >
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, the equivalent for Solaris (10+) is event ports:
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/barts/entry/entry_2_event_ports
> http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/event_completion.html

You are right. The event completion framework allows a thread to send
an event to another thread within the same process. This functionality
is exposed through port_send(3C) and port_sendn(3C) calls; events
can be collected with port_get(3C) function.

- Martin
> 
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