Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.

Brent Cook
2006-07-31T22:16:41Z

On Monday 31 July 2006 17:00, David Miller wrote:
>
> So we'd have cases like this, assume we start with a full event
> queue:
>
> thread A thread B
>
> dequeue event
> aha, new connection
> accept()
> register new kevent
> queue is now full again
> add kevent on new
> connection
>
> At this point thread A doesn't have very many options when the kevent
> add fails. You cannot force this thread to read more events, since he
> may not be in a state where he is easily able to do so.

There has to be some thread that is responsible for reading events. Perhaps a
reasonable thing for a blocked thread that cannot process events to do is to
yield to one that can?