On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:17:10 +0200 Florian Haas <florian.haas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/09/2009 12:44 PM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > We use threads and pipe for event notification (I/O completion); I/O > > threads signal the main thread when I/Os are complete. signalfd is > > faster than it (signalfd is supported as of 2.6.22). > > Tomo-san, > > AFAICS signalfd has not been backported to Red Hat's RHEL 5 kernels. So > if I understand correctly, this patch would break building tgt on that > platform (and presumably others, like Debian etch and SLES 10). Would > you mind employing ifdefs so that when signalfd is not available on the > platform tgt is being built on, it reverts to the old behavior? This patch works in the old way on a box where signalfd is not supported. I have not try this patch with systems that doesn't support signalfd. Can anyone test this patch on such system? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
