On 09/02/13 04:54, Eric Wong wrote:
Using one eventfd per userspace socket still seems a bit wasteful.
Wasteful in what sense? Occupying a slot in file descriptor table?
That's the price for having the socket uniquely identified by the
fd.
Yes. I realize eventfd is small, but I don't think eventfd is needed
at all, here. Just one pipe.
Ah. Got you! You mean not to change the kernel, just use pipe for the
purpose.
However, the convoluted pipe-style design is the problem I am trying to
solve rather than the solution. It leads to convoluted APIs with
convoluted semantics as described in the article. I've been using that
kind of design for past 8 years and every time I have to deal with it I
swear that one day I will implement a proper in-kernel solution to get
rid of the hack.
And now I have finally done so.
Martin
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