On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 06:56:56AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> writes: > > > QEMU currently uses select(2)-style rfds/wfds/xfds for file descriptor > > event polling. Unfortunately the underlying fd_set type and its macros > > (FD_SET()) have a hardcoded maximum for file descriptors. It is > > possible to exceed this limit so we need a more scalable event polling > > structure. > > > > Poller is a growable array of GPollFDs that will allow us to use > > g_poll(3) instead of select(2) in the future. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> > > How about using a GArray instead?
g_poll(3) needs a contiguous array of GPollFD structs. I can't see how GArray can provide that - it seems to only work if you're using g_array_*() accessor functions and doesn't give you a contiguous C array. Stefan
