Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:00:30 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] epoll reduced (to 1) number of passes over the ready set ... |
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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?
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