[Libevent-users] Add support for WINDOWS Overlapped IO
Toby Douglass
toby.douglass at summerblue.net
Mon Dec 11 13:38:59 EST 2006
Kevin Sanders wrote:
> I haven't looked at you're code yet, sorry I don't know the function
> names. I'm referring to when the IOCP thread calls GQCS and sees the
> read completion, it calls a read completion callback I believe? If
> someone made a blocking call from this callback (the callback is
> running on the IOCP thread) then that would be bad (performance wise).
>
> So the IOCP threads aren't totally internal because they run the
> callbacks.
Ah, yes, quite so.
> Unless these IOCP threads are just triggering an event
> somewhere that the user threads are waiting on (please say no)?
No, they're not.
:-)
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