re: [patch] sys_epoll ...

[Dan Kegel]

Davide wrote:
 >asmlinkage int sys_epoll_create(int maxfds);
 >asmlinkage int sys_epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, unsigned int events);
 >asmlinkage int sys_epoll_wait(int epfd, struct pollfd **events, int timeout);

Hey Davide,
I've always been a bit bothered by the need to specify maxfds in
advance.  What's the preferred way to handle the situation
where you guess wrong on the value of maxfds?  Create a new
epoll and register all the old fds with it?  (Sounds like
a good job for a userspace wrapper library.)

Regardless, thanks for pushing /dev/epoll along towards inclusion
in 2.5.  I'm looking forward to seeing it it integrated.
Even if the interface doesn't please everyone, the performance
should...
- Dan