Deep Dive into the Linux epoll Mechanism and Its Kernel Implementation
The article dissects Linux’s epoll I/O multiplexing, tracing the flow from socket creation with accept through epoll_create, epoll_ctl registration, and epoll_wait sleeping, detailing the kernel’s eventpoll object, red‑black tree, per‑socket wait‑queue callbacks that enable O(log N) registration and O(1) event delivery for tens of thousands of connections.
