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SubjectRe: [patch 13/13] signal/timer/event fds v9 - KAIO eventfd support example ...
Davide Libenzi wrote:
> This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code,
> in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd
> (hence compatible with POSIX select/poll). The KAIO code simply signals
> the eventfd fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd.
> This patch uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass
> an eventfd file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time
> a request completes. At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the
> completed result to a struct io_event.
> I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it runs fine here:
>
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5.fds/include/linux/aio_abi.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.fds.orig/include/linux/aio_abi.h 2007-03-31 12:45:30.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5.fds/include/linux/aio_abi.h 2007-03-31 12:46:31.000000000 -0700
> @@ -84,7 +84,11 @@
>
> /* extra parameters */
> __u64 aio_reserved2; /* TODO: use this for a (struct sigevent *) */
> - __u64 aio_reserved3;
> + __u32 aio_reserved3;
> + /*
> + * If different from 0, this is an eventfd to deliver AIO results to
> + */
> + __u32 aio_resfd;
> }; /* 64 bytes */
>

What is the motivation for adding aio_resfd to an individual iocb
instead of the entire io context? It seems redundant, as you can
already create multiple io contexts to wait on.

[also, minor nit: sys_eventfd() can legitimately return 0, but you're
banning its use in aio. userspace could easily dup() and close(), but...]

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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