Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 09:40:31 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com> Subject: Re: Is it possible to block pending queued RealTime signals (AIO originating)? Message-ID: <115B6A99-AC44-4F0A-B978-13D18A15B9CF@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmom-SCMH8BEdgdHxuE7PZ194G7XyQypV8U4f7ome76pWJw@mail.gmail.com> References: <1357608470.6752.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1301072215400.14726@sea.ntplx.net> <1357626412.6752.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <CAJ-VmomN5G70ftbV-uETYwUV7U6zLq%2BUKdav%2BM_B9HYB7HuEpQ@mail.gmail.com> <1357661755.6752.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> <CAJ-Vmom-SCMH8BEdgdHxuE7PZ194G7XyQypV8U4f7ome76pWJw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 8 January 2013 08:15, Richard Sharpe <rsharpe@richardsharpe.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 07:36 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> .. or you could abstract it out a bit and use freebsd's >>> aio_waitcomplete() or kqueue aio notification. >>> >>> It'll then behave much saner. >> >> Yes, going forward that is what I want to do ... this would work nicely >> with a kqueue back-end for Samba's tevent subsystem, and if someone has >> not already written such a back end, I will have to do so, I guess. > > Embrace FreeBSD's nice asynchronous APIs for doing things! You know you want to! > > (Then, convert parts of samba over to use grand central dispatch... :-) > > Seriously though - I was doing network/disk IO using real time signals > what, 10 + years ago on Linux and it plain sucked. AIO + kqueue + > waitcomplete is just brilliant. kqueue for signal delivery is also > just brilliant. Just saying. Or just use libevent to abstract away kqueues/inotify/etc? Samba isn't just for freebsd... Thanks, -Garretthelp
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