Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 21/28] libxl: ocaml: add wrappers for poll

[Rob Hoes <Rob.Hoes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Other than Dave's comment it looks good to me.
> 
> But how does the event model work in your callers today? The intention
> with the libxl event interface is that by implementing the right hooks to
> register/deregister fds you can just continue to use your existing event loop
> (presuming it can take events on fds).

I have been experimenting with two different ways of doing this.

Xenopsd does not yet have an fd polling loop that we can easily use for libxl 
events. For this reason I just wrapped the poll function myself and ran it 
separately. The other option is to use a library such as Lwt 
(http://ocsigen.org/lwt/), which does have an event loop we can easily 
integrate with, and I got the libxl fd registration stuff working with this in 
a test program.

The problem with the latter approach is that it requires quite a rather big 
rewrite of xenopsd in order to use Lwt (or a something similar), and we did not 
have time for that yet (we probably will at some point).

Cheers,
Rob
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