A ring buffer for epoll

Posted May 31, 2019 21:50 UTC (Fri) by mm7323 (subscriber, #87386)
In reply to: A ring buffer for epoll by cesarb
Parent article: A ring buffer for epoll

You could call that syscall batching. Apart from the downsides of error handling, I believe there are patent issues:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9038075B2/en

A ring buffer for epoll

Posted Jun 1, 2019 8:05 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (5 responses)

That patent is owned by Red Hat, so no problem here.

A ring buffer for epoll

Posted Jun 2, 2019 5:07 UTC (Sun) by alison (subscriber, #63752) [Link] (4 responses)

I think you mean "owned by IBM," ahem.

A ring buffer for epoll

Posted Jun 2, 2019 9:48 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (3 responses)

I think you mean "donated to OIN".

A ring buffer for epoll

Posted Jun 2, 2019 14:52 UTC (Sun) by alison (subscriber, #63752) [Link] (1 responses)

>I think you mean "donated to OIN".

There's some good news, at least. The contrast between IBM's handling of RedHat and Oracle's of Sun is striking, at least so far.

A ring buffer for epoll

Posted Jun 2, 2019 19:30 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

So far Red Hat has not been acquired; it's still an independent public company, although in the process of being acquired.

A ring buffer for epoll

Posted Jun 3, 2019 9:09 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Assignee of record is still RedHat.