- // or we are waken up due to new queued clients or data.
- int nfds = epoll_pwait(epoll_fd, events, EPOLL_MAX_EVENTS, -1, &sigset_without_usr1_block);
+ // or 20 ms (about one frame at 50 fps) has elapsed.
+ //
+ // We could in theory wait forever and rely on wakeup()
+ // from add_client_deferred() and add_data_deferred(),
+ // but wakeup is a pretty expensive operation, and the
+ // two threads might end up fighting over a lock, so it's
+ // seemingly (much) more efficient to just have a timeout here.
+ int nfds = epoll_pwait(epoll_fd, events, EPOLL_MAX_EVENTS, EPOLL_TIMEOUT_MS, &sigset_without_usr1_block);