Re: [RFC/PATCH] epoll: replace EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE with EPOLL_CTL_POKE

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Christof Meerwald <cmeerw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

Thanks, missed that the first time around.  Perhaps TRIGGER is a
better name than POKE :x

I'm hoping Paton has a chance to look at my implementation and
comment on it.
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