From: Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@cmeerw.org>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Holland <pholland@adobe.com>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] epoll: replace EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE with EPOLL_CTL_POKE
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 02:10:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121103011031.GA22452@edge.cmeerw.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121102041312.GA15886@dcvr.yhbt.net>
On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 04:13:12 +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
[...]
> EPOLL_CTL_POKE may be used to force an item into the epoll
> ready list. Instead of disabling an item asynchronously
> via EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE, this forces the threads calling
> epoll_wait() to handle the item in its normal loop.
That was my initial suggestion as well - see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/19/358
Christof
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-03 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-26 0:08 [PATCH v3] epoll: Support for disabling items, and a self-test app Paton J. Lewis
2012-10-29 20:42 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <1351210112-23238-1-git-send-email-palewis-dv/VyGpifdQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-10-31 6:32 ` Michael Wang
2012-10-31 18:57 ` Paton J. Lewis
[not found] ` <5091749B.4060605-dv/VyGpifdQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-01 0:43 ` Michael Wang
2012-11-01 18:47 ` Paton J. Lewis
[not found] ` <5092C3B9.2070909-dv/VyGpifdQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-02 2:26 ` Michael Wang
2012-11-02 4:13 ` [RFC/PATCH] epoll: replace EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE with EPOLL_CTL_POKE Eric Wong
2012-11-03 1:10 ` Christof Meerwald [this message]
2012-11-06 21:58 ` Eric Wong
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