[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH][RFC] Use signalfd() to work around signal/select race

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Anthony Liguori writes ("[PATCH][RFC] Use signalfd() to work around signal/select race"):
>   
>> Here's my patch to work around the signal/select race.  I think it cleans up
>> the code quite nicely.  While signalfd() is Linux-bias, I think it's a nice
>> interface and the emulation isn't too bad.
>>
>> I've only lightly tested.  I'm looking to see what people's reaction would be
>> to this.
>>     
>
> For the avoidance of any doubt, following my criticisms of Anthony's
> approach: I think it's essential that we have at least one of
> Anthony's or my fixes to this problem.
>
> Obviously I prefer my patch because I wrote it, but other people might
> prefer it because it's textually much smaller, closer to the existing
> code, and doesn't use threads.
>
> Also, my patch has been pretty thoroughly tested, including some
> performance stress testing, as part of the Xen 3.3.0 release.
>   

FWIW, I still don't see your patch.  It's not on gmane so I don't think 
it's a problem on my side.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ian.
>