Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751424AbWH3WvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:51:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751313AbWH3WvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:51:09 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.239]:34509 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751424AbWH3WvG (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:51:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=s7CDWvxq5CS5Y6z1ym8LPUqt8Bf3KWyH6kT6eDrkg29tW3B4rIRxDccAoqWJMRT2nkJ2jc/C++nJ+MEHg/cnL11ZkWANaTa8exYhcEV1gB4wopYtlGE5K0D/ncjOUKWZPqLOx/Ci1ny9EhxN8Ni03u09ZQtlcSt3Pt9EUL/l2B4= Message-ID: <44F6164F.6000709@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:50:55 +0400 From: Manu Abraham User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew de Quincey Subject: Re: [RFC] Simple userspace interface for PCI drivers References: <20060830062338.GA10285@kroah.com> <44F5C5E0.4050201@gmail.com> <20060830175250.GA6258@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060830175250.GA6258@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 27 Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:07:44PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> Being a bit excited and it is really interesting to have such a >> proposal, it would simplify the matters that held us up even more, >> probably. The name sounds fine though. All i was wondering whether there >> would be any high latencies for the same using in such a context. But >> since the transfers would occur in any way, even with a kernel mode >> driver, i think it should be pretty much fine. > > As mentioned, this framework is being used in industrial settings right > now, where latencies are a huge issue. It works just fine, so I do not > think there are any problems in this area. Cool. Is there some way we can avoid the poll ? It would be a real gain indeed, if a POLL can be avoided. Regards, Manu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/