On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 03:23 +1100, Alex Dubov wrote: > > Tell me how a 128 threads program can use this new mechanism in a > scalable way. > > One signal per thread ?
What for? Kernel will deliver the signal only to the thread/threads which has the relevant signal unblocked (they are blocked by default). > > I guess we'll keep AF_UNIX then, thank you. Kindly enlighten me, how are you going to use any file descriptor in a 128 threads program in a scalable way (socket and all)? How this approach will be different when using signalfd()? And no, I'm not proposing to take your favorite toys away. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
