Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Remove global locks from epoll

From: Fam Zheng
Date: Thu Jan 15 2015 - 20:37:09 EST


On Thu, 01/15 21:02, Jason Baron wrote:
> Finally, I'd also like to potentially co-ordinate this series with the recent
> syscall enhancements from Fam Zheng: http://lwn.net/Articles/628828/ since these
> patches are somewhat invasive.

What I am working on is a new call that can be seen as a list of epoll_ctl
operations followed by an wait, which has enriched clockid and timespec
flexibility. it will reuse existing calls' implementation, but that ideally
should be independent to most of the implementation internals, including
locking changes here.

Thanks for letting me know!

Fam
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