[Twisted-Python] Re-entrancy policy for the reactor

Itamar Turner-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Wed Jul 27 21:42:22 EDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 18:10 -0400, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:


> Mostly though, an additional queue for non-reentrancy would be an
> ad-hoc special-case solution to one tiny part of the more general
> problem that reactor event ordering is a complete accident with
> unforseen consequences.  If there were a more general scheduling
> mechanism, we could schedule events in a better order overall.

We already have a queue, for reactor.callFromThread. We could add, say,
reactor.runInABit, and make reactor.callFromThread that just adds a
waker notification after calling that.





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