Re: Non-blocking IO

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On 8/20/09, Shankar Ganesh <shankarganeshk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> I  have an interrupt handler in my driver which is supposed to
> wake-up/intimate user process to proceed . How do Linux supports this
> mechanism ?
> I have a choice of using select/poll in user space and implementing poll
> fops in my driver. Is there any alternative better approach available?

You might consider epoll too, a version of epoll() created to better
handle large amount of watched file descriptors and promising better
wake up latency.

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regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com

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