Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> So, if I've understood correctly, the purpose of this patch is to
> improve performance on a multi-CPU system, which has the kqueue()
> function. Most notably, FreeBSD?
OS X also has this, so it might be worth trying on a multi-CPU Mac.
> If there's no measurable difference in performance, between kqueue() and
> poll(), I think we should forget about this.
I agree that we shouldn't add this unless it's demonstrably a win.
No opinion on whether your test is adequate.
regards, tom lane