From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: adi hodos <thefatredguy@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggested addition to epoll interface - epoll_post_notification()
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:16:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adak500f4z2.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2517f1930909150559p505b583fpf3501a1c7dad6634@mail.gmail.com> (adi hodos's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:59:00 +0300")
> I have been playing with epoll lately and I would like to make a suggestion
> regarding the epoll interface.
> It would be nice to have a function to wake up a thread/process that is blocked
> on an epoll_wait() call and sent it some
> user defined data in the form of a struct epoll_event parameter ( something
> similar with PostQueuedCompletionStatus() from Windows ).
You might have a look at eventfd() which creates an fd that can be used
to signal from one thread to another (and which can be waited on with epoll).
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 12:59 Suggested addition to epoll interface - epoll_post_notification() adi hodos
2009-09-15 18:16 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2009-09-15 18:48 ` Davide Libenzi
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