possible mmap() problems

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Apr 28 15:15:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:46:35AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>Just commenting out the if in fhandler_pipe::ready_for_read which
>>controls whether "fhandler_base::ready_for_read" gets called or not,
>>making fhandler_base::ready_for_read always called unconditionally,
>>should get you pretty close to the way things used to be.
>
>This does indeed seem to work -- I get a lot fewer thread terminations now.

Well, you shouldn't really get *any* thread terminations.

>There is no noticeable impact to performance of my applications,

This method had noticeable impact on performance for people trying to write
CDs.

cgf



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