[RFC/PATCH] epoll: replace EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE with EPOLL_CTL_POKE

[Christof Meerwald]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2012 04:13:12 +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
[...]
> EPOLL_CTL_POKE may be used to force an item into the epoll
> ready list.  Instead of disabling an item asynchronously
> via EPOLL_CTL_DISABLE, this forces the threads calling
> epoll_wait() to handle the item in its normal loop.

That was my initial suggestion as well - see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/19/358


Christof

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