On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:28:12PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 05:12:49PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> > Em Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:49:54AM +0200, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> > > hi,
> > > adding support to quit sampling commands:
> > > record,top,trace,kvm stat live
> > >
> > > when all the monitored events are closed, like following perf
> > > command will now exit when monitored process (pid 1234) exits:
> > >
> > > $ perf record -p 1234
> > >
> > > I added independent poller object to handle basic polling
> > > tasks. I had to factor some parts, so sending this as RFC,
> >
> > Why? I'm trying to figure out why this poller class is needed, just from
> > reading the changelog entries, no luck so far.
>
> So this is all about accounting for when all events are closed? I.e. as
> we receive the ERR and HUP we go on closing the entries in the pollfd?
> Then, when none are closed, then we exit, is that the case?
>
> Why not just mark them -1 and decrement evlist->nr_open_fds (new field)?
>
> struct pollfds {
> struct pollfd *pollfds;
> int nr_fds;
> int nr_open_fds;
> };
>
> Don't use callbacks and then that poller_item doesn't need to exist :-\
I think callbacks are convenient when having different kind
of events combined in polling, as described in my reply to
your first email
>
> I'll try to cook a patch with those ideas later today, if for anything,
> to validate your patches :-)
ok ;-) thanks
jirka
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