Re: Comparing the aio and epoll event frameworks.

Dan Kegel (dank@kegel.com)
Mon, 19 May 2003 18:37:49 -0700


William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
>>>>Adding a single shot feature to epoll takes about 5 lines of code,
>>>>comments included :) You know how many reuqests I had ? Zero, nada.
>
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2003, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>>>I thought edge triggered epoll *was* single-shot.
>
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 05:47:15PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
>>For single shot I mean that once you receive one event, you will not
>>receive more events for that fd if you do not rearm it. Suppose you
>>receive 1000 bytes of data and you get an event (EPOLLIN). If after 10
>>seconds you receive another 1000 bytes, you will receive another event.
>>This is not single shot.
>
>
> I think this would be useful for network daemons that would like to
> fairly schedule responses (i.e. not re-arm until a client on a given fd
> deserves a turn again). IRC daemons would appear to be a perfect
> candidate for such. ...

No need. The plain old edge triggered behavior can handle this
nicely.
- Dan

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