Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:44:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:44:25 -0500 Received: from mtao-m02.ehs.aol.com ([64.12.52.8]:3204 "EHLO mtao-m02.ehs.aol.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:43:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 11:49:25 -0800 From: John Gardiner Myers Subject: Re: and nicer too - Re: [PATCH] epoll more scalable than poll In-reply-to: <20021028220809.GB27798@outpost.ds9a.nl> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-aio@kvack.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Message-id: <3DBEE645.3020808@netscape.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 References: <20021028220809.GB27798@outpost.ds9a.nl> <20021028225821.GA29868@outpost.ds9a.nl> <3DBDCC02.6060100@netscape.com> <20021029001843.GB31212@outpost.ds9a.nl> To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 24 bert hubert wrote: >That is a semantics change and not an API/ABI change. > An API/ABI encompasses the semantics of the calls. A change to the semantics is a change to the API/ABI. >I bet Davide knows best. > Nope, he doesn't. >An easy solution is to have sys_epoll_ctl check if there is there is data >ready and make sure there is an edge to report in that case to the next call >of sys_epoll_ctl(). > > This is the very solution I am proposing. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/