Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:23:39 -0800 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. |
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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > With provided patch it is possible to wakeup 'for-free' - just call > kevent_ctl(ready) with zero number of ready events, so thread will be > awakened if it was in poll(kevent_fd), kevent_wait() or > kevent_get_events().
Yes, I realize that. But I wrote something else:
>> Rather than mark an existing entry as ready, how about a call to >> inject a new ready event? >> >> This would be useful to implement functionality at userlevel and >> still use an event queue to announce the availability. Without this >> type of functionality we'd need to use indirect notification via >> signal or pipe or something like that.
This is still something which is wanted.
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