Nginx - Google Summer of Code ideas

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:36:44PM +0000, Valery Kholodkov wrote:

> 
> ----- "Maxim Dounin" <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> 
> > > > other OSes have something too, but it's anyway will require some 
> > > > non-trivial porting.
> > > 
> > > Here I disagree: linux kernel supports notification via eventfd
> > since 2.6.18. eventfd syscall is available as of glibc 2.8, which is a
> > part of e.g. ubuntu intrepid distribution. 
> > > 
> > > Personally I've tested this interface and it looks fine to me.
> > 
> > Disagree with what?  I've said there are interfaces, but they 
> > aren't standard.  You've just added one more example of 
> > non-standard interface.
> 
> I disagree that there is no good interface. I think they are all as best as they could be at the moment. After all kqueue notification of AIO completion isn't POSIX compliant.

So it looks like you disagree with yourself, since I've never said 
that there is no good interface.  :)

I've said quite a different thing: standard interface as defined 
by POSIX isn't good.

FreeBSD interface with AIO notifications via kqueue is good, 
eventfd under linux probably is good too.  But they are both 
non-standard (and non-portable).  So nginx have to support many 
notification interfaces for various OSes.

Maxim Dounin