"DBus Embedded" - a clean break

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 20.01.11 12:50, Havoc Pennington (hp at pobox.com) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Simon McVittie
> <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> > One performance-related thing that I'm working towards is trying out optional
> > Linux epoll support for 1.5, as a way to stop the main loop being O(n) in
> > number of active sockets. This requires considerable main-loop refactoring,
> > but I'm getting there...
> 
> You might try using libev, which is very fast, and just one file
> designed to be "sucked in" (copy-pasted) into other projects. In fact
> part of its API is to do #defines that change the ABI, so that's the
> only way to use it.
> 
> Anyway libev is very fast/small and would just replace the current
> mainloop thingy for dbus-daemon. It supports epoll and also weirder
> stuff on various platforms.

Last time I looked at libev it was an awful mess with a lot of global
state (making it hard to use properly in a threaded env) and stuff. I
wasn't convinced.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.