Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote: > >> On 02/02/2014 06:17 PM, Nathaniel Yazdani wrote: > > So are you saying that those features you mentioned are specifically sought > > after for the kernel? If so I'd like to take a crack at some of them, > > may as well > > get some use out of my new knowledge of epoll internals :) > > If by "sought after", you mean "is there at least one epoll user who > wants them", then yes :) > > I think that EPOLLET and EPOLLONESHOT are giant hacks, and that what > everyone really wants is the ability to very efficiently toggle events > on and off. The ability to do it simultaneously and inexpensively > with epoll_wait would make it happen.
Everybody using single-threaded epoll, you mean? I suppose there's quite a few of those. I've pondered an epoll_xchg syscall which would behave like *BSD kevent to satisfy single-threaded users, but never got around to it. All my epoll uses are multithreaded w/ oneshot nowadays, so xchg would only save one syscall per thread. -- 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/
