On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > Epoll is doing multiple passes over the ready set at the moment, because > > of the constraints over the f_op->poll() call. Looking at the code again, > > I noticed that we already hold the epoll semaphore in read, and this > > (together with other locking conditions that hold while doing an > > epoll_wait()) can lead to a smarter way to "ship" events to userspace (in > > a single pass). > > Ok, this looks fine, but I think it makes more sense with (a) a sign-off > line and perhaps a slightly expanded explanation, and (b) keeping it in > -mm until after 2.6.21 is out, and merging it then. > > Yes? No? Linus is on some crazy drugs again?
Let me do more testing. My post was to have more eyes looking at it. Once I feel confident about it, and if no objections come from review, I'll sign and repost. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
