[Olsr-dev] olsr polling/threading/mainloop/scheduler

[Ferry Huberts]

Hi guys,

I've been looking at the scheduler in the current olsr version, stable 
branch.

I've seen that the mainloop uses polling of sockets and timers.
I can understand that this design came from the strong desire of not 
have threading.

However,...

This setup is killing w.r.t power consumption, and performance too (!)

I propose to have olsr v2 be exclusively event-driven and to use _no_ 
polling at all.
This (almost automatically) also means that threading will be introduced.


I can help out with the design.


Thoughts?


-- 
Ferry Huberts