From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Subject: Re: [take19 1/4] kevent: Core files.
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:09:31 +0200
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 12:55, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:45:03PM +0200, Eric Dumazet (dada1@cosmosbay.com) 
> >
> > What is missing or not obvious is : If events are skipped because of
> > overflows, What happens ? Connections stuck forever ? Hope that
> > everything will restore itself ? Is kernel able to SIGNAL this problem to
> > user land ?
>
> Exisitng  code does not overflow by design, but can consume a lot of
> memory. I talked about the case, when there will be some limit on
> number of entries put into mapped buffer.

You still dont answer my question. Please answer the question.
Recap : You have a max of XXXX events queued. A network message come and 
kernel want to add another event. It cannot because limit is reached. How the 
User Program knows that this problem was hit ?


> It is the same.
> What if reing buffer was grown upto 3 entry, and is now empty, and we
> need to put there 4 entries? Grow it again?
> It can be done, easily, but it looks like a workaround not as solution.
> And it is highly unlikely that in situation, when there are a lot of
> event, ring can be empty.

I dont speak of re-allocation of ring buffer. I dont care to allocate at 
startup a big enough buffer.

Say you have allocated a ring buffer of 1024*1024 entries.
Then you queue 100 events per second, and dequeue them immediatly.
No need to blindly use all 1024*1024 slots in the ring buffer, doing 
index = (index+1)%(1024*1024)


> epoll() does not have mmap.
> Problem is not about how many events can be put into the kernel, but how
> many of them can be put into mapped buffer.
> There is no problem if mmap is turned off.

So zap mmap() support completely, since it is not usable at all. We wont 
discuss on it.
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