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* [PATCH 0/2] lei Maildir inotify/kevent support
@ 2021-07-19  8:59 Eric Wong
  2021-07-19  8:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] config: s/_one_val/get_1/ for public use Eric Wong
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Wong @ 2021-07-19  8:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

One of the most important features of lei that drove the
decision towards its daemonic architecture.

My brain still has some wires loose or crossed :<

So I've had a very tough time mapping out the internal design
for this that could deal with rename() storms and reduce the
need to handle IN_Q_OVERFLOW conditions.  Eventually,
introducing a new concept in the form of LeiNoteEvent helped my
crippled brain make the necessary connections and cobble
together something that seems halfway working.

LeiNoteEvent represents a significant conceptual shift in lei
internals.  Having long-lived workers is closer to my original
vision of how lei internals would've been.  That old model had
some major weaknesses, however:

1) error handling/reporting back to the CLI required FD passing
   (and large-scale FD passing got confusing pretty quick)

2) excessive FD passing overflowed default kernel buffers
   and made parallelism difficult for unprivileged users

Since there's no CLI to report errors to with internal
notifications, we don't have FDs to pass.  Of course, that
means we can lose errors right now, but it's probably not
a big deal for (mostly) innocuous keyword changes.

Eric Wong (2):
  config: s/_one_val/get_1/ for public use
  lei: start implementing inotify Maildir support

 MANIFEST                         |   6 ++
 lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm        |   6 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/DirIdle.pm       |  17 +++++
 lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm           | 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiAddWatch.pm   |  41 ++++++++++
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiInput.pm      |   1 +
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiLsWatch.pm    |  15 ++++
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiNoteEvent.pm  | 124 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiSearch.pm     |   2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiSelfSocket.pm |  45 +++++++++++
 lib/PublicInbox/LeiWatch.pm      |  13 ++++
 t/lei-watch.t                    |  49 ++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 419 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/PublicInbox/LeiAddWatch.pm
 create mode 100644 lib/PublicInbox/LeiLsWatch.pm
 create mode 100644 lib/PublicInbox/LeiNoteEvent.pm
 create mode 100644 lib/PublicInbox/LeiSelfSocket.pm
 create mode 100644 lib/PublicInbox/LeiWatch.pm
 create mode 100644 t/lei-watch.t

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