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Subject: Re: [PATCH Resend] epoll: add EPOLLEXCLUSIVE support
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:05:41 +0200
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* Jason Baron | 2012-03-29 10:16:53 [-0400]:

>Right, for level triggered events, they all wait up. However, if you use
>edge triggered, ie add 'EPOLLET', then the event gets 'consumed' by the
>first thread that wakes up, and the subseqent waiters wouldn't get woken
>up. IE you'll get one wakeup.

I addressed level triggered, right - it match the model. But I don't wanted to
wake up every every thread anyway. I don't want to abandon level triggered
functioning.

Any objective against this flag?

Hagen