Hi! I realy love the flexibility and the great design of libev, however I am a bit puzzled with the event loop embeding.
The problem is that I want to mix and match code that uses libev event loop with the code tailored for a very different event loop environment, all in the same thread. This other event loop environment is actually Nginx web server. The reason I am willing to jump through hoops is because of the piece of code that is to be used both in a standalone utility and in a Nginx module. Nginx event loop provides utilities to watch file descriptors for status changes. Timers are also included. It's safe to assume that epoll is used for fd watching on the target platform. I think it is relatively easy to embed nginx event loop inside ev_loop with but the pair of watchers: ev_io for the epoll fd plus ev_timer (or maybe ev_prepare and ev_check should be added to the mix as well?) There is one thing that still bothers me: now it takes two epoll_wait() calls for Nginx to fetch the events instead of one. (One epoll_wait() in libev plus another epoll_wait() for the nested epoll fd maintained solely by Nginx). Though the overhead is probably negligible I would prefer to have it another way around, i.e. let Nginx control the 'outermost' event loop while libev drives the embeded loop. Is this possible with libev? For example libuv has uv_backend_fd() and uv_backend_timeout(); but I can't find anything similar in libev. _______________________________________________ libev mailing list libev@lists.schmorp.de http://lists.schmorp.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libev
