Make winbind use epoll where available

[Ira Cooper]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 04:57:26PM +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Attached find a patchset to make winbind use the standard
> > tevent_context_init function which uses epoll where
> > available. Before this winbind would always do poll. Ran a
> > successful private autobuild.
> >
> > One customer test brought winbind from 100% CPU over minutes
> > down to barely being seen in "top" for obvious reasons.
> >
> > Comments?
>
> Is it worth making samba, smbd and nmbd also do this ?


I see poll and the smbd poll setup functions in my profiling with DTrace
already.

I'm not sure on the percentages.  I can find that out.  Also I'm not sure
how much I'd get converting to a Solaris "port" based mechanism.  But it
should be similar to epoll.

-Ira