From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] doc: technical/ds: update blurb to note more daemons
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 19:28:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230309192842.625820-3-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230309192842.625820-1-e@80x24.org>
And add a note about the various wakeup modes of kqueue|epoll
while we're at it; we use all of them!
---
Documentation/technical/ds.txt | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/ds.txt b/Documentation/technical/ds.txt
index 89cc05af..4cfb62fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/ds.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/ds.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
PublicInbox::DS - event loop and async I/O base class
-Our PublicInbox::DS event loop which powers public-inbox-nntpd
-and public-inbox-httpd diverges significantly from the
-unmaintained Danga::Socket package we forked from. In fact,
-it's probably different from most other event loops out there.
+Our PublicInbox::DS event loop which powers most of our long-lived
+processes(*) diverges significantly from the unmaintained Danga::Socket
+package we forked from. In fact, it's probably different from most
+other event loops out there.
+
+Most notably, it uses one-shot, level-trigger, and edge-trigger mode
+modes of kqueue|epoll depending on the situation.
+
+(*) public-inbox-netd,(-httpd,-imapd,-nntpd,-pop3d,-watch) + lei-daemon
Most notably:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-09 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-09 19:28 [PATCH 0/6] various doc updates Eric Wong
2023-03-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 1/6] doc: technical/memory: add note about mwrap-perl Eric Wong
2023-03-09 19:28 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-03-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 3/6] doc: technical: document weird stuff in our codebase Eric Wong
2023-03-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 4/6] doc: lei import: add hints about nntp.* and imap.* config options Eric Wong
2023-03-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 5/6] doc: lei config: update with --edit and --list examples Eric Wong
2023-03-09 19:28 ` [PATCH 6/6] doc: 2.0.0 release notes update Eric Wong
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