Re: aio poll, io_pgetevents and a new in-kernel poll API V3

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018, at 11:44 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > FYI, this kernel has issues.  It will boot up, but I don't have
> > networking, and even rebooting doesn't succeed.  I'm looking into it.
> 
> A bisect lands on: eventfd: switch to ->poll_mask.  That's not super
> helpful, though.  I did run the ltp eventfd2 tests, and they all pass.

FWIW: https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?id=3904c8761a60dbadbdfaf98fe23ff19cbdcc4a9a

Since that a lot of userspace (including NetworkManager) uses eventfd. I haven't
tried this patchset myself but I'd look at what the GLib mainloop is doing.