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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
To: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com, snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: mpatocka@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] dm: a basic support for using the select or poll function
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 11:39:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494495579.6093.10.camel@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170509191028.6898-2-agrover@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 12:10 -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> 
> This is the very simple patch for polling on the /dev/mapper/control
> device. The select or poll function waits until any event happens on
> any
> dm device since opening the /dev/mapper/control device. When select
> or
> poll returns the device as readable, we must close and reopen the
> device
> to wait for new dm events.

Why have you done it that way? Couldn't you just save the
dm_global_event_nr at the time poll() is called?

Regards
Martin

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-11  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-09 19:10 [PATCH 0/3] poll()able DM events Andy Grover
2017-05-09 19:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] dm: a basic support for using the select or poll function Andy Grover
2017-05-11  9:39   ` Martin Wilck [this message]
2017-05-11  9:43     ` Martin Wilck
2017-05-11 13:21       ` Mike Snitzer
2017-05-11 18:10         ` Andy Grover
2017-05-11 19:49           ` Martin Wilck
2017-05-11 20:21             ` Alasdair G Kergon
2017-05-11 20:45               ` Martin Wilck
2017-05-11 21:38                 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2017-05-11 19:30         ` Martin Wilck
2017-05-11 21:46           ` Andy Grover
2017-05-12  6:48             ` Martin Wilck
2017-05-11 21:50           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2017-05-12 15:52           ` Mikulas Patocka
2017-05-09 19:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] dm-ioctl: add a new DM_DEV_ARM_POLL ioctl Andy Grover
2017-05-09 19:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] dm-ioctl: report event number in DM_LIST_DEVICES Andy Grover
2017-05-09 21:14 ` [PATCH 0/3] poll()able DM events Mike Snitzer
2017-09-17  2:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] dm-ioctl: report event number in DM_LIST_DEVICES Eugene Syromiatnikov
2017-09-19 16:47   ` Andy Grover
2017-09-20 11:29   ` [PATCH] dm-ioctl: fix alignment of event number in the device list Mikulas Patocka

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