Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 02:10:31 +0100
From: Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@cmeerw.org>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Holland <pholland@adobe.com>,
        Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
        linux-api@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] epoll: replace EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE with EPOLL_CTL_POKE
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 04:13:12 +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
[...]
> EPOLL_CTL_POKE may be used to force an item into the epoll
> ready list.  Instead of disabling an item asynchronously
> via EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE, this forces the threads calling
> epoll_wait() to handle the item in its normal loop.

That was my initial suggestion as well - see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/19/358


Christof

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