On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Matthew Dempsky <matt...@dempsky.org>
wrote:
> Currently there's a lot of redundancy between dopselect() and
> doppoll(). This diff cleans them up in the following ways:
>
> - Better variable names. Instead of "rts", "ats", and "tts" they're
> now called "deadline", "now", and "diff"; and "ncoll" is now
> "selcookie". They're also all more minimally scoped.
>
> - Prefer loops over goto.
>
> - Loosely styled after kern_synch.c's sleep_{setup,finish}() APIs,
> there are now selsetup(), selabort(), and selsleep() methods that
> dopselect() and doppoll() are implemented in terms of. Moreover,
> "P_SELECT", "nselcoll", and "selwait" are now only accessed within
> sel{setup,record,abort,sleep,wakeup}(), making it easier to update
> and review their interactions.
>
> - poll() and ppoll() now show up in "ps" as "select" instead of
> "poll". This is just for simplicity because I don't think
> distinguishing them offers much value when they're basically just
> different APIs for the same underlying logic, but it's easy to
> restore if people care.
>
> Other than the last point, this should be behavior preserving.
> Followup changes will tweak things a bit further, but having this diff
> in place should make them easier to review.
>
> ok?
>
Makes sense to me, though I would use a do {} while (error==0); loop
instead of for(;;){<...> if (error) break;}
Philip Guenther
