[Spice-devel] [PATCH 5/7] red_worker: reimplement event loop using poll()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/17/2012 12:59 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> > > The patch itself looks ok, but I'm not sure I like the direction. Why
>>> > > not specialize, have epoll for linux and poll if epoll isn't supported?
>>> > >  - double the code
>>> > >  + no possible regression
>> > 
>> > - guaranteed bitrot in the poll() path :)
> Or perhaps consider using something like libevent.so ? This has solved
> this problem for all platforms, but it might be considered overkill ?

So QEMU would have glib's event loop, its own, and also libevent's.  I
like it :) but Dan's code is simple enough that going with poll() makes
sense.

Paolo