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From: Davi Arnaut <davi@haxent.com.br>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 09:39:19 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46388677.4050706@haxent.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a36005b50705020040l8874d64m1bcf25da5cae885d@mail.gmail.com>

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Davi Arnaut <davi@haxent.com.br> wrote:
>> The pollable futex approach is far superior (send and receive events from
>> userspace or kernel) to eventfd and fixes (supercedes) FUTEX_FD at the same time.
>> [...]
> 

<snip>

> 
> - more complicated case: I have to wait for multiple futexes and lock
> them all at the same time or don't return at all.  This is possible with
> SysV semaphores and generally useful and needed.
> How can this be implemented with your scheme?

It's quite easy to implement this scheme by write()ing the futexes all
at once but that would break the one futex per fd association. For
atomicity: if one of the futexes can't be queued, we would rollback
(unqueue) the others.

Sounds sane?

--
Davi Arnaut

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-02 12:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-02  5:22 [patch 00/22] pollfs: filesystem abstraction for pollable objects Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 01/22] pollfs: kernel-side API header Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 02/22] pollfs: file system operations Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 03/22] pollfs: asynchronously wait for a signal Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 04/22] pollfs: pollable signal Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 05/22] pollfs: pollable signal compat code Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 06/22] pollfs: export the plsignal system call Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 07/22] pollfs: x86, wire up " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 08/22] pollfs: x86_64, " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 09/22] pollfs: pollable hrtimers Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02 21:16   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-05-02 23:00     ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 10/22] pollfs: export the pltimer system call Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 11/22] pollfs: x86, wire up " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 12/22] pollfs: x86_64, " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 13/22] pollfs: asynchronous futex wait Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:54   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-02  6:16     ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  6:39       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-02  6:54         ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  7:11         ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  7:40   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02  7:55     ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-02  8:08       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02  8:49         ` Eric Dumazet
2007-05-02 16:39           ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 16:59             ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02 17:10               ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 17:29                 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-02 17:53                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 18:21                     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-03 13:46                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-03 18:24                         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-03 19:03                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-03 22:14                             ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-04 15:28                               ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-04 19:15                                 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-04 19:20                                   ` 2.6.20.4 / 2.6.21.1 AT91SAM9260-EK oops Ryan Ordway
2007-05-04 23:38                                   ` [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-05 18:54                                     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-06  7:50                                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-06 19:47                                         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-06 19:54                                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-06 20:18                                           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-06 21:57                                           ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-07  5:33                                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-07  5:46                                           ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 17:37                 ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02 17:49                   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 18:05                     ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-03 13:40                       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 12:20     ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02 12:39     ` Davi Arnaut [this message]
2007-05-02 16:46       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-02 17:05         ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 15/22] pollfs: export the plfutex system call Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 16/22] pollfs: x86, wire up " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 17/22] pollfs: x86_64, " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 18/22] pollfs: check if a AIO event ring is empty Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 19/22] pollfs: pollable aio Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 20/22] pollfs: export the plaio system call Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 21/22] pollfs: x86, wire up " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  5:22 ` [patch 22/22] pollfs: x86_64, " Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02  6:05 ` [patch 00/22] pollfs: filesystem abstraction for pollable objects Andrew Morton
2007-05-02 17:28   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-02 17:47     ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02 18:23       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-02 18:50         ` Davi Arnaut
2007-05-02 19:42           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-05-02 20:11             ` Davi Arnaut

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