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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@cmeerw.org>
Cc: 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: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 21:58:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121106215854.GA6626@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121103011031.GA22452@edge.cmeerw.net>

Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@cmeerw.org> wrote:
> 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

Thanks, missed that the first time around.  Perhaps TRIGGER is a
better name than POKE :x

I'm hoping Paton has a chance to look at my implementation and
comment on it.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-06 21:58 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
2012-10-31  6:32 ` Michael Wang
2012-10-31 18:57   ` Paton J. Lewis
2012-11-01  0:43     ` Michael Wang
2012-11-01 18:47       ` Paton J. Lewis
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
2012-11-06 21:58     ` Eric Wong [this message]

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