From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
Subject: Re: [take19 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:55:27 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061004045527.GB32267@2ka.mipt.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a36005b50610032150x8233feqe556fd93bcb5dc73@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:50:09PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper (drepper@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> \> I have been told in private what is signal masks about - just to wait
> >until either signal or given condition is ready, but in that case just
> >add additional kevent user like AIO complete or netwrok notification
> >and wait until either requested events are ready or signal is triggered.
>
> No, this won't work. Yes, I want signal notification as part of the
> event handling. But there are situations when this is not suitable.
> Only if the signal is expected in the same code using the event
> handling can you do this. But this is not always possible.
> Especially when the signal handling code is used in other parts of the
> code than the event handling. E.g., signal handling in a library,
> event handling in the main code. You cannot assume that all the code
> is completely integrated.
Signals still can be delivered in usual way too.
When we enter sys_ppoll() we specify needed signals as syscall
parameter, with kevents we will add them into the queue.
--
Evgeniy Polyakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-04 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-09-12 8:41 ` [take18 " Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-12 8:41 ` [take18 1/4] kevent: Core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-12 8:41 ` [take18 2/4] kevent: poll/select() notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-12 8:41 ` [take18 3/4] kevent: Socket notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-12 8:41 ` [take18 4/4] kevent: Timer notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-20 9:35 ` [take19 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-20 9:35 ` [take19 1/4] kevent: Core files Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-20 9:35 ` [take19 2/4] kevent: poll/select() notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-20 9:35 ` [take19 3/4] kevent: Socket notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-20 9:35 ` [take19 4/4] kevent: Timer notifications Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-04 6:34 ` [take19 1/4] kevent: Core files Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-04 6:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-04 17:57 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-05 8:57 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-05 9:56 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-05 10:21 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-05 10:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-05 10:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-05 12:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-05 12:37 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-15 23:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-16 7:33 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-16 10:16 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-16 11:23 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 5:10 ` Johann Borck
2006-10-17 5:59 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-17 10:42 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 13:12 ` Chase Venters
2006-10-17 13:35 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 10:39 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 13:19 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 13:42 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 13:52 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 14:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 14:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 15:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 16:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 16:26 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 16:35 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-17 16:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-18 4:10 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-18 4:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-10-17 15:33 ` Hans Henrik Happe
2006-10-05 14:01 ` Hans Henrik Happe
2006-10-05 14:15 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-05 15:07 ` Hans Henrik Happe
2006-09-22 19:22 ` [take19 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism Andrew Morton
2006-09-23 4:23 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-04 6:09 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-04 6:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-04 6:27 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-04 6:24 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-26 15:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-09-27 4:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-09-27 15:09 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-04 4:50 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-04 4:55 ` Evgeniy Polyakov [this message]
2006-10-04 7:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-04 7:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-04 17:20 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-05 9:02 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-05 14:45 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-06 8:36 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-15 22:43 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-16 7:23 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-10-16 9:59 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-10-16 10:38 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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