Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946913AbWKAQG3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:06:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946824AbWKAQG3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:06:29 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:1006 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423941AbWKAQG2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:06:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:05:51 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: David Miller , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Message-ID: <20061101160551.GA2598@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1154985aa0591036@2ka.mipt.ru> <1162380963981@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061101130614.GB7195@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20061101132506.GA6433@2ka.mipt.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061101132506.GA6433@2ka.mipt.ru> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1604 Lines: 44 Hi! > > > Generic event handling mechanism. > > > > > > Consider for inclusion. > > > > > > Changes from 'take21' patchset: > > > > We are not interrested in how many times you spammed us, nor we want > > to know what was wrong in previous versions. It would be nice to have > > short summary of what this is good for, instead. > > Let me guess, short explaination in subsequent emails is not > enough... Yes. > Kevent is a generic subsytem which allows to handle event notifications. > It supports both level and edge triggered events. It is similar to > poll/epoll in some cases, but it is more scalable, it is faster and > allows to work with essentially eny kind of events. Quantifying "how much more scalable" would be nice, as would be some example where it is useful. ("It makes my webserver twice as fast on monster 64-cpu box"). > Events are provided into kernel through control syscall and can be read > back through mmaped ring or syscall. > Kevent update (i.e. readiness switching) happens directly from internals > of the appropriate state machine of the underlying subsytem (like > network, filesystem, timer or any other). > > I will put that text into introduction message. Thanks. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/