Feature request: ability to use libeio with multiple event loops

[Marc Lehmann]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:34:52PM +0100, Hongli Lai <hongli at phusion.nl> wrote:
> I'm writing a multithreaded evented server in which I have N threads
> (N=number of CPU cores) and one libev event loop per thread. I want to
> use libeio but it looks like libeio depends on global variables so
> this isn't going to work.

global variables are entirely fine with threads (libeio itself uses
threads).

> I'd like to request the ability to use libeio with multiple event
> loops. This probably involves changing the API so that each libeio
> function accepts a context object.

You can already do that - lock around request submit calls and have a
receiving thread that calls eio_poll and does whatever it needs to do to
notify other threads.

You could e.g. pthread_cond_signal in the want callback and wait for that
in the receiving thread (thats tricky of course, a pipe is much simpler
:)

See http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/libev/2011q4/001585.html for soem
discussion.

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