Hi Saúl, > > Also, on top the above, creating and processing a timer requires 3 > syscalls: timerfd_create, timerfd_gettime and read vs 0 if we keep the > min-heap. > Delegation of the timers to the kernel will certainly free libuv from some code in addition to bring a far better precision. The timerfd_* syscalls was not added without reason into the Linux kernel. The read() is not required if you don't want the number of expirations that have occurred. The integration of the file descriptor into the existing epoll() syscall is enough.
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