Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:53:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: green@freebsd.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kqueue giant-locking (&kq_Giant, locking) Message-ID: <200404170253.i3H2rmAV021500@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200404170212.i3H2Cg8n031749@green.homeunix.org>
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In article <200404170212.i3H2Cg8n031749@green.homeunix.org> you write: >1. The recursion has been removed from kqueue. This means kqueues cannot be > added to other kqueues for EVFILT_READ -- yes, that ability has been > around since r1.1 of kern_event.c, Actually, I'm fairly certain that Jonathan considered this to be a fairly important property of kqueue and his papers do mention it. It was done that way specifically to allow a kqueue to be included in some larger application's event polling loop without needing to know how it was implemented. -GAWollman
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