Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.

From: Brent Cook <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:16:48 -0500

On Monday 31 July 2006 17:00, David Miller wrote:
>
> So we'd have cases like this, assume we start with a full event
> queue:
>
> 	thread A		thread B
>
> 	dequeue event
> 	aha, new connection
> 	accept()
> 				register new kevent
> 				queue is now full again
> 	add kevent on new
> 	connection
>
> At this point thread A doesn't have very many options when the kevent
> add fails.  You cannot force this thread to read more events, since he
> may not be in a state where he is easily able to do so.

There has to be some thread that is responsible for reading events. Perhaps a 
reasonable thing for a blocked thread that cannot process events to do is to 
yield to one that can?