Re: [PATCH 10/10] tools lib api: Adopt fdarray class from perf's evlist

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 03:46:32 EST


Hi Arnaldo,

On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:59:50 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> +int fdarray__add(struct fdarray *fda, int fd)
> +{
> + /*
> + * XXX: 64 is arbitrary, just not to call realloc at each fd.
> + * Find a better autogrowing heuristic
> + */
> + if (fda->nr == fda->nr_alloc &&
> + fdarray__grow(fda, 64) < 0)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
> + fda->entries[fda->nr].fd = fd;
> + fda->entries[fda->nr].events = POLLIN | POLLERR | POLLHUP;
> + fda->nr++;
> + return 0;
> +}

To be more generic api, I think it'd be better receiving events from
user rather than hard-coding. Also it might be useful to let user
sets a grow hint (during init?) as well.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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