Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs: introduce sendfd() syscall

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 13:11 +1100, Alex Dubov wrote:

> 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()?

Thats the point : use one different channel (AF_UNIX socket, or AF_INET
listener...) per thread.

Each thread uses epoll() on a private epoll fd, and a dedicated channel
to get fds from other processes.

Sharing a signalfd() would be terrible, like using accept() on a single
listener socket :(

Your proposed interface, being tied to legacy signal(s), do not allow
for many multiple channels.

Sorry, but using signals is simply a no go for me.


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