From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Eric Varsanyi <e0206@foo21.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org
Subject: Re: [Patch][RFC] epoll and half closed TCP connections
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:44:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030712194432.GE10450@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030712181654.GB15643@srv.foo21.com>
Eric Varsanyi wrote:
> - epoll_wait() returns a single EPOLLIN event on the FD representing
> both the 1/2 shutdown state and data available
Correct.
> At this point there is no way the app can tell if there is a half closed
> connection so it may issue a close() back to the client after writing
> results. Normally the server would distinguish these events by assuming
> EOF if it got a read ready indication and the first read returned 0 bytes,
> or would issue read calls until less data was returned than was asked for.
>
> In a level triggered world this all just works because the read ready
> indication is driven back to the app as long as the socket state is half
> closed. The event driven epoll mechanism folds these two indications
> together and thus loses one 'edge'.
Well then, use epoll's level-triggered mode. It's quite easy - it's
the default now. :)
If there's an EOF condition pending after you called read(), and then
you call epoll_wait(), you _should_ see another EPOLLIN condition
immediately.
If you aren't seeing epoll_wait() return with EPOLLIN when there's an
EOF pending, *and* you haven't set EPOLLET in the event flags, that's
a bug in epoll. Is that what you're seeing?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-12 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-12 18:16 [Patch][RFC] epoll and half closed TCP connections Eric Varsanyi
2003-07-12 19:44 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-07-12 20:51 ` Eric Varsanyi
2003-07-12 20:48 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-12 21:19 ` Eric Varsanyi
2003-07-12 21:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-12 21:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-12 23:11 ` Eric Varsanyi
2003-07-12 23:55 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-13 1:05 ` Eric Varsanyi
2003-07-13 20:32 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-13 21:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 23:05 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-13 23:09 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 8:14 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-14 15:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 1:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 21:14 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-13 23:05 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-13 23:11 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-13 23:52 ` Entrope
2003-07-14 6:14 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-14 7:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 1:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 6:14 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-15 20:27 ` James Antill
2003-07-16 1:46 ` David Schwartz
2003-07-16 2:09 ` James Antill
2003-07-13 13:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 16:55 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-12 20:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-13 5:24 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-13 14:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 17:00 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-13 19:15 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-13 23:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 1:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 2:24 ` POLLRDONCE optimisation for epoll users (was: epoll and half closed TCP connections) Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 2:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 2:43 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 2:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 3:02 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 3:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 3:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 3:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 4:00 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 5:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 6:24 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 6:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 3:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 3:17 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 3:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 3:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 3:12 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 3:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-14 17:09 ` [Patch][RFC] epoll and half closed TCP connections kuznet
2003-07-14 17:09 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-07-14 21:45 ` Jamie Lokier
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