Turn on epoll changelists with libevent 2.0.9-rc and later

Libevent 2.0 has a "changelist" feature that avoids making redundant
syscalls if we wind up doing a lot of event_add/event_del operations
on the same fd in a row.  Unfortunately, due to a weird design
choice in Linux, it doesn't work right with epoll when multiple fds
refer to the same socket (e.g., one is a dup() of the other).  We
don't dup() anything we give to Libevent, though, so it is safe for
us to explicitly turn this feature on.
This commit is contained in:
Nick Mathewson 2010-12-16 13:35:09 -05:00
parent 1d0f8fe53c
commit dd2ae32bc1

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@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ tor_libevent_initialize(tor_libevent_cfg *torcfg)
event_config_set_num_cpus_hint(cfg, torcfg->num_cpus);
#endif
#if LIBEVENT_VERSION_NUMBER >= V(2,0,9)
/* We can enable changelist support with epoll, since we don't give
* Libevent any dup'd fds. This lets us avoid some syscalls. */
event_config_set_flag(cfg, EVENT_BASE_FLAG_EPOLL_USE_CHANGELIST);
#endif
the_event_base = event_base_new_with_config(cfg);
event_config_free(cfg);