[Lse-tech] RE: Unifying epoll,aio,futexes etc. (What I really want from epol l)

[Davide L. <da...@xm...>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

>
> > everything easier. I don't really see futex creation/destroy
> > as an high
> > frequency event that might be suitable for optimization.
> > Usually you have
> > your own set of resources to be "protected" and in 95% of
> > cases you know
> > those resources from the beginning.
>
> If with inititialization you mean taking the slow path ...

No, I mean the association between a futex address to a file. That is what
you have to do to use a futex with epoll ( 2.5.46 hopefully, if QA is
passed ).



- Davide