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    SubjectRe: context switch vs. signal delivery [was: Re: Accelerating user mode linux]
    Jamie Lokier wrote:
    > Ingo Molnar wrote:
    > > And threads can do queued events that amortizes context switch
    > > overhead, while queued signals generate per-event signal delivery, so
    > > signal delivery costs are not amortized.
    > >
    > > (Not that i advocate SIGIO or helper threads for highperformance IO -
    > > Ben's aio interface is the fastest and most correct approach.)
    >
    > Isn't the per-event queued signal cost amortised when using sigwaitinfo()?

    Of course I meant:

    Isn't the per-event queued signal cost amortised when using sigtimedwait()?

    cheers,
    -- Jamie
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