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On 03/15/2013 06:19 PM, Ryan Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Sebastian Huber
> <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
> <mailto:sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I want to port the FreeBSD kqueue implementation to another operating
>     system (RTEMS in this case) to improve the Erlang support.
>
>     I have difficulties to understand the purpose of the kqueue_task.  This
>     function runs asynchronously.  It obtains some locks and wakes up the
>     normal kqueue channel if (kq->kq_state & KQ_TASKDRAIN) == KQ_TASKDRAIN.
>       This state is only set in kqueue_close().  So most of the time the
>     kqueue_task only obtains some locks, clears a flag (KQ_TASKSCHED) and
>     releases the locks?
>
>
> You missed the most important thing that it does: it calls KNOTE_LOCKED to wake
> up any waiters sleeping on this event.  I suspect that it had to be done in a
> separate task due to lock ordering problems with the kq_global lock.

Oh, I was blind.  This KNOTE_LOCKED looked more like an assertion to me.

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