On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The usage cases of yours are quite different from mine. We don't use a single file descriptor to to manage various resources. The worker threads are _not going_ to have a file descriptor, _only_ the event dispatching (poll) thread.
An model which doesn't scale well.
A pollable futex is even more useful for _single_ threaded programs that don't want to go into lengthy hacks to monitor events coming from the outside world.
There is nothing here that cannot be done with a more complete model for event handling. It's Linus decision whether he wants to add yet more code, yet more possible problems, yet more maintenance overhead/nightmare for an interim solution which isn't necessary, which cannot solve all the problems, and which is not as scalable as other proposed methods. I can only say that I would be trickly against it. It makes just no sense. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
