Re: [patch] epoll reduced (to 1) number of passes over the ready set ...

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > 
> > Epoll is doing multiple passes over the ready set at the moment, because 
> > of the constraints over the f_op->poll() call. Looking at the code again, 
> > I noticed that we already hold the epoll semaphore in read, and this 
> > (together with other locking conditions that hold while doing an 
> > epoll_wait()) can lead to a smarter way to "ship" events to userspace (in 
> > a single pass).
> 
> Ok, this looks fine, but I think it makes more sense with (a) a sign-off 
> line and perhaps a slightly expanded explanation, and (b) keeping it in 
> -mm until after 2.6.21 is out, and merging it then.
> 
> Yes? No? Linus is on some crazy drugs again?

Let me do more testing. My post was to have more eyes looking at it. Once 
I feel confident about it, and if no objections come from review, I'll 
sign and repost.



- Davide