From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>, John Myers <jgmyers@netscape.com>,
linux-aio@kvack.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Comparing the aio and epoll event frameworks.
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:52:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0305191749130.6565@bigblue.dev.mcafeelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030520004636.GP2444@holomorphy.com>
On Mon, 19 May 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >> Adding a single shot feature to epoll takes about 5 lines of code,
> >> comments included :) You know how many reuqests I had ? Zero, nada.
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:10:21PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > I thought edge triggered epoll *was* single-shot.
> > - Dan
>
> fs/eventpoll.c suggests "epoll" stands for "eventpoll" as opposed to
> "edge-triggered". Davide, did the LT additions prompt the renaming or
> was this always the case?
It was both actually :) It meant event-poll and also was edge-triggered.
Now you can have it level-triggered on a per-fd basis. The epoll named was
not a good one from the beginning though :)
- Davide
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-20 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-19 23:33 John Myers
2003-05-20 0:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-20 1:10 ` Dan Kegel
2003-05-20 0:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-20 0:52 ` Davide Libenzi [this message]
2003-05-20 0:47 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-05-20 1:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-20 1:37 ` Dan Kegel
2003-05-20 1:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-20 2:06 ` Dan Kegel
2003-05-20 1:22 ` Dan Kegel
2003-05-20 0:58 ` Davide Libenzi
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