On 02/02/2014 06:17 PM, Nathaniel Yazdani wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This patch series adds support for read(), write(), and ioctl() operations > on eventpolls as well as an associated userspace structure to format the > eventpoll entries delivered via read()/write() buffers. The new structure, > struct epoll, differs from struct epoll_event mainly in that it also holds > the associated file descriptor. Using the normal I/O interface to manipulate > eventpolls is much neater than using epoll-specific syscalls while also > allowing for greater flexibility (theoretically, pipes could be used to > filter access). Specifically, write() creates, modifies, and/or removes event > entries stored in the supplied buffer, using the userspace identifier to > check whether an entry exists and removing it if no events are set to trigger > it, while read() simply waits for enough events to fill the provided buffer. > As timeout control is essential for polling to be practical, ioctl() is used > to configure an optional timeout, which is infinite by default.
If major changes are made to the epoll API, I want a way to do a bunch of EPOLL_CTL_MODs and a wait, all in one syscall. Even better: allow more flexible timeouts (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_REALTIME, etc) at the same time. Since this can't do that, I'm not terribly inspired. --Andy > > Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 1 + > fs/eventpoll.c | 534 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h | 10 + > 3 files changed, 384 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-) > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
