lib/PublicInbox/PktOp.pm | 19 +++----------------

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/PktOp.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/PktOp.pm
index c32217354a024a170f719ce973b3ff885a12df01..639a4f623f0e798f515b5600a360a87f473b1137 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/PktOp.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/PktOp.pm
@@ -18,13 +18,8 @@
 sub new {
 	my ($cls, $r) = @_;
 	my $self = bless { sock => $r }, $cls;
-	if ($PublicInbox::DS::in_loop) { # iff using DS->EventLoop
-		$r->blocking(0);
-		$self->SUPER::new($r, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
-	} else {
-		$self->{blocking} = 1;
-	}
-	$self;
+	$r->blocking(0);
+	$self->SUPER::new($r, EPOLLIN|EPOLLET);
 }
 
 # returns a blessed object as the consumer, and a GLOB/IO for the producer
@@ -40,12 +35,6 @@ 	my ($producer, $cmd, @args) = @_;
 	send($producer, @args ? "$cmd\0".ipc_freeze(\@args) : $cmd, MSG_EOR);
 }
 
-sub close {
-	my ($self) = @_;
-	my $c = $self->{sock} or return;
-	$self->{blocking} ? delete($self->{sock}) : $self->SUPER::close;
-}
-
 sub event_step {
 	my ($self) = @_;
 	my $c = $self->{sock};
@@ -75,12 +64,10 @@ 		return $self->close if $msg eq ''; # close on EOF
 	}
 }
 
-# call this when we're ready to wait on events,
-# returns immediately if non-blocking
+# call this when we're ready to wait on events
 sub op_wait_event {
 	my ($self, $ops) = @_;
 	$self->{ops} = $ops;
-	while ($self->{blocking} && $self->{sock}) { event_step($self) }
 }
 
 1;