Re: [PATCH-RFC 2/2] eventfd: EFD_STATE flag

Avi Kivity
2009-08-04T09:20:29Z

On 08/04/2009 12:17 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> If a different read comes after the write but after our read, it will
>> have transferred the value, resulting in the same situation.
>>
>> I think reads should never block with a state based mechanism.
>>
>>
> Reader may want to poll for the status change.
>

Without epoll(), it's inherently racy since reads from other processes
can clear the status.

The "last read value" needs to be maintained for each reader, which is
not possible with read().

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