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DateMon, 18 Dec 2000 16:14:56 -0800 (PST)
FromNigel Gamble <>
SubjectRe: [RFC] Semaphores used for daemon wakeup
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> This patch illustrates an alternative approach to waking and waiting on
> daemons using semaphores instead of direct operations on wait queues.
> The idea of using semaphores to regulate the cycling of a daemon was
> suggested to me by Arjan Vos.  The basic idea is simple: on each cycle
> a daemon down's a semaphore, and is reactivated when some other task
> up's the semaphore.

> Is this better, worse, or lateral?

This is much better, especially from a maintainability point of view.
It is also the method that a lot of operating systems already use.

Nigel Gamble                                    nigel@nrg.org
Mountain View, CA, USA.                         http://www.nrg.org/

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