On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > There are userspace libraries that do almost everything, but you hardly > > see things like pthread_(EFD_STATE-like)_create() or similar system > > interfaces based on such abstraction. > > It actually seems as close to a condition variable as an eventfd can be. A pthread condition typical code usage maps to eventfd like: while (read(efd, ...) > 0) if (CONDITION) break; So a pthread condition is really a wakeup gate like eventfd is. EFD_STATE has nothing to do with a pthread condition. - Davide -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
