[Twisted-Python] pending twisted fixes

Robin Bryce robin at wiretooth.com
Tue May 17 19:24:17 EDT 2005


Ah, thanks Bob. Makes sense now :)

Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> On May 15, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Robin Bryce wrote:
> 
>>> On a related note, I wonder how complex it would be to really support
>>> multiple threads listening in epoll and requiring each context to  take
>>> its locks, so then different contexts could scale in smp.
>>>
>>
>> I thought python's GIL lock made scaling like this for smp  impossible ?
> 
> 
> No.  epoll isn't Python bytecode, so it can block without holding the  GIL.
> 
> -bob
> 




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