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authorRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2017-04-13 14:56:26 +0100
committerRoy Marples <roy@marples.name>2017-04-13 14:56:26 +0100
commit3bc50abd0006dd320962cd33695b53a38290fcdf (patch)
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parent2d31c0f69834ce3e507b3f32238f4595df6bc7cc (diff)
downloaddhcpcd-3bc50abd0006dd320962cd33695b53a38290fcdf.tar.xz
Tart up some more.
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@@ -7,16 +7,16 @@ allows the safe delivery of signals.
As such, select(2) and poll(2) are not suitable.
This is an eloop benchmark to test the performance of the various
-polling functions. It's inspired by libevent/bench.
+polling mechanisms. It's inspired by libevent/bench.
-eloop needs to be compiled for a specific function, and these can be chosen
+eloop needs to be compiled for a specific polling mechanism.
+eloop will try and work out which one to use, but you can influence which one
by giving one of these CPPFLAGS to the Makefile:
* HAVE_KQUEUE
* HAVE_EPOLL
* HAVE_PSELECT
* HAVE_POLLTS
* HAVE_PPOLL
-Otherwise, eloop will try and work out wich mechanism to use.
kqueue(2) is found on modern BSD kernels.
epoll(2) is found on modern Linux and Solaris kernels.