当用作边缘触发接口时,出于性能原因,可以通过指定 (EPOLLIN|EPOLLOUT) 在 epoll 接口 (EPOLL_CTL_ADD) 内添加一次文件描述符。这允许您避免在 EPOLLIN 和 EPOLLOUT 之间不断切换,使用 EPOLL_CTL_MOD 调用 epoll_ctl(2)。
Q9 使用 EPOLLET 标志(边缘触发行为)时,我是否需要连续读取/写入文件描述符直到 EAGAIN?
A9 Receiving an event from epoll_wait(2) should suggest to you that
such file descriptor is ready for the requested I/O operation. You
must consider it ready until the next (nonblocking) read/write
yields EAGAIN. When and how you will use the file descriptor is
entirely up to you.
For packet/token-oriented files (e.g., datagram socket, terminal in
canonical mode), the only way to detect the end of the read/write
I/O space is to continue to read/write until EAGAIN.
For stream-oriented files (e.g., pipe, FIFO, stream socket), the
condition that the read/write I/O space is exhausted can also be
detected by checking the amount of data read from / written to the
target file descriptor. For example, if you call read(2) by asking
to read a certain amount of data and read(2) returns a lower number
of bytes, you can be sure of having exhausted the read I/O space
for the file descriptor. The same is true when writing using
write(2). (Avoid this latter technique if you cannot guarantee
that the monitored file descriptor always refers to a stream-ori‐
ented file.)