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@ -147,24 +147,70 @@ override the flags completely if it is found in the environment. This is |
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useful to try out specific backends to test their performance, or to work |
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around bugs. |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_SELECT> (portable select backend) |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_SELECT> (value 1, portable select backend) |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_POLL> (poll backend, available everywhere except on windows) |
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This is your standard select(2) backend. Not I<completely> standard, as |
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libev tries to roll its own fd_set with no limits on the number of fds, |
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but if that fails, expect a fairly low limit on the number of fds when |
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using this backend. It doesn't scale too well (O(highest_fd)), but its usually |
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the fastest backend for a low number of fds. |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_EPOLL> (linux only) |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_POLL> (value 2, poll backend, available everywhere except on windows) |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_KQUEUE> (some bsds only) |
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And this is your standard poll(2) backend. It's more complicated than |
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select, but handles sparse fds better and has no artificial limit on the |
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number of fds you can use (except it will slow down considerably with a |
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lot of inactive fds). It scales similarly to select, i.e. O(total_fds). |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_DEVPOLL> (solaris 8 only) |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_EPOLL> (value 4, Linux) |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_PORT> (solaris 10 only) |
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For few fds, this backend is a bit little slower than poll and select, |
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but it scales phenomenally better. While poll and select usually scale like |
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O(total_fds) where n is the total number of fds (or the highest fd), epoll scales |
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either O(1) or O(active_fds). |
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If one or more of these are ored into the flags value, then only these |
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backends will be tried (in the reverse order as given here). If one are |
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specified, any backend will do. |
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While stopping and starting an I/O watcher in the same iteration will |
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result in some caching, there is still a syscall per such incident |
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(because the fd could point to a different file description now), so its |
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best to avoid that. Also, dup()ed file descriptors might not work very |
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well if you register events for both fds. |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_KQUEUE> (value 8, most BSD clones) |
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Kqueue deserves special mention, as at the time of this writing, it |
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was broken on all BSDs except NetBSD (usually it doesn't work with |
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anything but sockets and pipes, except on Darwin, where of course its |
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completely useless). For this reason its not being "autodetected" unless |
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you explicitly specify the flags (i.e. you don't use EVFLAG_AUTO). |
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It scales in the same way as the epoll backend, but the interface to the |
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kernel is more efficient (which says nothing about its actual speed, of |
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course). While starting and stopping an I/O watcher does not cause an |
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extra syscall as with epoll, it still adds up to four event changes per |
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incident, so its best to avoid that. |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_DEVPOLL> (value 16, Solaris 8) |
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This is not implemented yet (and might never be). |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_PORT> (value 32, Solaris 10) |
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This uses the Solaris 10 port mechanism. As with everything on Solaris, |
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it's really slow, but it still scales very well (O(active_fds)). |
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=item C<EVMETHOD_ALL> |
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Try all backends (even potentially broken ones that wouldn't be tried |
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with C<EVFLAG_AUTO>). Since this is a mask, you can do stuff such as |
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C<EVMETHOD_ALL & ~EVMETHOD_KQUEUE>. |
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=back |
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If one or more of these are ored into the flags value, then only these |
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backends will be tried (in the reverse order as given here). If none are |
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specified, most compiled-in backend will be tried, usually in reverse |
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order of their flag values :) |
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=item struct ev_loop *ev_loop_new (unsigned int flags) |
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Similar to C<ev_default_loop>, but always creates a new event loop that is |
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Marc Alexander Lehmann
14 years ago