Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc6 Resending] NETWORKING : Edge Triggered EPOLLOUTevents get missed for TCP sockets

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Nagendra Tomar wrote:

> Definitely not ! 
> 
> The point is that the "tcp write space available" 
> wakeup does not get called if SOCK_NOSPACE bit is not set. This was
> fine when the wakeup was merely a wakeup (since SOCK_NOSPACE bit 
> indicated that someone really cared abt the wakeup). Now after the
> introduction of callback'ed wakeups, we might have some work to
> do inside the callback even if there is nobody interested in the wakeup
> at that point of time. 
> 
> In this particular case the ep_poll_callback is not getting called and
> hence the socket fd is not getting added to the ready list.

I know, I saw the patch. I was just commenting the point where DaveM was 
heading to ;)
This things needs to be looked at a little bit more deeply.


- Davide


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