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Libevent's current timeout code is relatively optimized for the randomly scattered timeout case, where events are added with their timeouts in no particular order. We add and remove timeouts with O(lg n) behavior. Frequently, however, an application will want to have many timeouts of the same value. For example, we might have 1000 bufferevents, each with a 2 second timeout on reading or writing. If we knew this were always the case, we could just put timeouts in a queue and get O(1) add and remove behavior. Of course, a queue would give O(n) performance for a scattered timeout pattern, so we don't want to just switch the implementation. This patch gives the user the ability to explicitly tag certain timeout values as being "very common". These timeout values have a cookie encoded in the high bits of their tv_usec field to indicate which queue they belong on. The queues themselves are each triggered by an entry in the minheap. See the regress_main.c code for an example use. svn:r1517
To build libevent, type
$ ./configure && make
(If you got libevent from the subversion repository, you will
first need to run the included "autogen.sh" script in order to
generate the configure script.)
Install as root via
# make install
You can run the regression tests by
$ make verify
Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:
CFLAGS=-DUSE_DEBUG ./configure [...]
Acknowledgements:
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The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
fixing bugs:
Alejo
Weston Andros Adamson
William Ahern
Stas Bekman
Andrew Danforth
Mike Davis
Shie Erlich
Alexander von Gernler
Artur Grabowski
Aaron Hopkins
Claudio Jeker
Scott Lamb
Adam Langley
Philip Lewis
David Libenzi
Nick Mathewson
Andrey Matveev
Richard Nyberg
Jon Oberheide
Phil Oleson
Dave Pacheco
Tassilo von Parseval
Pierre Phaneuf
Jon Poland
Bert JW Regeer
Dug Song
Taral
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