1. 17 Oct, 2008 1 commit
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      9p-trans_fd: use single poller · 992b3f1d
      Tejun Heo authored
      trans_fd used pool of upto 100 pollers to monitor the r/w fds.  The
      approach makes sense in userspace back when the only available
      interfaces were poll(2) and select(2).  As each event monitor -
      trigger - handling iteration took O(n) where `n' is the number of
      watched fds, it makes sense to spread them to many pollers such that
      the `n' can be divided by the number of pollers.  However, this
      doesn't make any sense in kernel because persistent edge triggered
      event monitoring is how the whole thing is implemented in the kernel
      in the first place.
      
      This patch converts trans_fd to use single poller which watches all
      the fds instead of the poll of pollers approach.  All the fds are
      registered for monitoring on creation and only the fds with pending
      events are scanned when something happens much like how epoll is
      implemented.
      
      This change makes trans_fd fd monitoring more efficient and simpler.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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  2. 16 Oct, 2008 39 commits