Re: destroying buckets and classes, terminating server loops

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:34:27PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > The issue I am facing is that in the console client library, to make the
> > notify mechanism work, I have to put each notification request into its own
> > port bucket.  This is so that I can set the queue limit to a very low value,
> 
> This is madness.  What makes you think you need separate buckets,
> i.e. separate port sets?  The qlimit is on a port, not a port set.

The problem is quite a different one.  I need to use
ports_manage_port_operations_one_thread, because if I use multithreads,
the queue limit is ineffective for my application.

So I need to have exactly one thread for each virtual console that I am
handling, which means I need separate buckets.

The library should be generic enough to support arbitrary number of virtual
consoles open at a time, depending on what is presented to the user.

The only alternative I see is to cache unused buckets and operations running
on them.

Thanks,
Marcus

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