kqueue for usb_dev
Kohji Okuno
okuno.kohji at jp.panasonic.com
Thu Feb 27 07:13:21 UTC 2014
Hi John-Mark,
Thank you for you comment.
From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com>
> Kohji Okuno wrote this message on Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 14:26 +0900:
>> I tried add kqueue I/F to usb_dev.c. I attached my patch.
>> What do you think about my patch?
>
> A few comments...
>
> 1) You should just drop the use of flag_iskevent and just
> unconditionally call KNOTE... since you have the lock already held,
> the cost is minimal (and w/ modern branch prediction, may be cheaper)...
Should we set the use of flag_iskevent, when usb_filter_read() and
usb_filter_write() return `0'?
> 2) Why do you try to start read/write transfers in the _filter? You
> should just check to see if data is available and not do work.. This
> is also important since kqueue calls the filter just before delivering
> the knote to userland to verify that there is still data, and it will
> call your _event function for each knote on the fd... The work should
> be started through other mechanisms, like read/write syscall or
> interrupt or timeout/callout... If it's required to get results from
> USB_IF_POLL, then it's fine..
I copied from usb_poll().
Should we try to start read/write transfers in usb_kqfilter()?
Or should not we try to start read/write transfers in poll and kqueue?
> 3) I don't see any calls to knlist_destroy... These calls are needed
> to clean up the knlist...
I understood.
> Obviously the #if 1's will need to go...
>
> Also, I don't think your change is against HEAD.. The line numbers
> in my version of usb_dev.c are different...
I'm sorry.
Many thanks,
Kohji Okuno
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