Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263422AbTETBCy (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 21:02:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263432AbTETBCx (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 21:02:53 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:50922 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263422AbTETBCw (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 21:02:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:15:41 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Dan Kegel Cc: Davide Libenzi , John Myers , linux-aio@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Comparing the aio and epoll event frameworks. Message-ID: <20030520011541.GR2444@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Dan Kegel , Davide Libenzi , John Myers , linux-aio@kvack.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200305192333.QAA12018@pagarcia.nscp.aoltw.net> <3EC9807D.3080804@kegel.com> <20030520010258.GQ2444@holomorphy.com> <3EC986ED.80604@kegel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EC986ED.80604@kegel.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 24 William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I think this would be useful for network daemons that would like to >> fairly schedule responses (i.e. not re-arm until a client on a given fd >> deserves a turn again). IRC daemons would appear to be a perfect >> candidate for such. ... On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:37:49PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > No need. The plain old edge triggered behavior can handle this > nicely. AIUI after the iospace on an fd is exhausted the event will be re-armed. It could probably be taken and then ignored until the client deserves a response again. Is that what you had in mind? (Don't take this too far; I'm in hypothetical land and am not pushing for the feature hard if at all.) -- wli - 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/