diff --git a/async.c b/async.c
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+++ b/async.c
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+#ifdef UWSGI_ASYNC
+
+#include "uwsgi.h"
+
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+
+#include <sys/epoll.h>
+
+int async_queue_init(int serverfd) {
+	int epfd ;
+	struct epoll_event ee;
+
+	epfd = epoll_create(256);	
+
+	if (epfd < 0) {
+		perror("epoll_create()");
+		return -1 ;
+	}
+
+	memset(&ee, 0, sizeof(struct epoll_event));
+	ee.events = EPOLLIN;
+        ee.data.fd = serverfd;
+
+        if (epoll_ctl(epfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, serverfd, &ee)) {
+                perror("epoll_ctl()");
+		close(epfd);
+		return -1;
+        }
+
+	return epfd;
+}
+
+int async_add(int queuefd, int fd, int etype) {
+	struct epoll_event ee;
+
+	memset(&ee, 0, sizeof(struct epoll_event));
+	ee.events = etype;
+        ee.data.fd = fd;
+
+        if (epoll_ctl(queuefd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, fd, &ee)) {
+                perror("epoll_ctl()");
+		return -1;
+        }
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
+struct wsgi_request *next_wsgi_req(struct uwsgi_server *uwsgi, struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req) {
+
+        uint8_t *ptr = (uint8_t *) wsgi_req ;
+
+        ptr += sizeof(struct wsgi_request)+(uwsgi->buffer_size-1) ;
+
+        return (struct wsgi_request *) ptr ;
+}
+struct wsgi_request *find_first_available_wsgi_req(struct uwsgi_server *uwsgi) {
+
+        struct wsgi_request* wsgi_req = uwsgi->wsgi_requests ;
+        int i ;
+
+        for(i=0;i<uwsgi->async;i++) {
+		//fprintf(stderr,"request %d fd %d switches %d\n", i, wsgi_req->poll.fd, wsgi_req->async_switches);
+                if (wsgi_req->async_status == 0) {
+                        return wsgi_req ;
+                }
+                wsgi_req = next_wsgi_req(uwsgi, wsgi_req) ;
+        }
+
+        return NULL ;
+}
+
+struct wsgi_request *find_wsgi_req_by_fd(struct uwsgi_server *uwsgi, int fd, int etype) {
+
+        struct wsgi_request* wsgi_req = uwsgi->wsgi_requests ;
+        int i ;
+
+        for(i=0;i<uwsgi->async;i++) {
+                if (wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd == fd && wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd_type & etype) {
+                        return wsgi_req ;
+                }
+                wsgi_req = next_wsgi_req(uwsgi, wsgi_req) ;
+        }
+
+        return NULL ;
+
+}
+
+
+struct wsgi_request * async_loop(struct uwsgi_server *uwsgi) {
+
+	struct wsgi_request *wsgi_req ;
+	int i ;
+
+	uwsgi->async_running = -1 ;
+        wsgi_req = uwsgi->wsgi_requests ;
+
+
+	for(i=0;i<uwsgi->async;i++) {
+        	if (wsgi_req->async_status == UWSGI_AGAIN) {
+			//fprintf(stderr,"REQUEST MONITORED %d %d\n",wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd, wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd_monitored);
+                	if (wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd != -1 && !wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd_monitored) {
+				// add fd to monitoring
+				if (async_add(uwsgi->async_queue, wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd, wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd_type)) {
+					// error adding fd to the async queue, better to close it...
+					close(wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd);
+					wsgi_req->async_status = UWSGI_OK ;
+					return wsgi_req;
+				}
+				wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd_monitored = 1;
+				wsgi_req->async_status = UWSGI_AGAIN;
+			}
+			else if (wsgi_req->async_waiting_fd == -1) {
+                		uwsgi->async_running = 0 ;
+				// st global wsgi_req for python functions
+				uwsgi->wsgi_req = wsgi_req ;
+				wsgi_req->async_status = (*uwsgi->shared->hooks[wsgi_req->modifier]) (uwsgi, wsgi_req);
+
+				if (wsgi_req->async_status < UWSGI_AGAIN) {
+					return wsgi_req;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		wsgi_req = next_wsgi_req(uwsgi, wsgi_req) ;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
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index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/tests/cpubound_async.py b/tests/cpubound_async.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..18ab1ceb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cpubound_async.py
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+
+def application(env, start_response):
+	start_response( '200 OK', [ ('Content-Type','text/html') ])
+	for i in range(1,100000):
+		yield "<h1>%s</h1>" % i