Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750943AbWKBGeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:34:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752629AbWKBGeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:34:19 -0500 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:36803 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750943AbWKBGeS (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 01:34:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 09:21:58 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Nate Diller Cc: LKML , Oleg Verych , Pavel Machek , David Miller , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck Subject: Re: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Message-ID: <20061102062158.GC5552@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <1154985aa0591036@2ka.mipt.ru> <1162380963981@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061101130614.GB7195@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20061101132506.GA6433@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061101160551.GA2598@elf.ucw.cz> <20061101162403.GA29783@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061101185745.GA12440@2ka.mipt.ru> <5c49b0ed0611011812w8813df3p830e44b6e87f09f4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5c49b0ed0611011812w8813df3p830e44b6e87f09f4@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.5 (2ka.mipt.ru [0.0.0.0]); Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:29:36 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1051 Lines: 22 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:12:41PM -0800, Nate Diller (nate.diller@gmail.com) wrote: > Indesiciveness has certainly been an issue here, but I remember akpm > and Ulrich both giving concrete suggestions. I was particularly > interested in Andrew's request to explain and justify the differences > between kevent and BSD's kqueue interface. Was there a discussion > that I missed? I am very interested to see your work on this > mechanism merged, because you've clearly emphasized performance and > shown impressive results. But it seems like we lose out on a lot by > throwing out all the applications that already use kqueue. It looks you missed that discussion - freebsd kqueue has fields in the kevent structure which have diffent sizes in 32 and 64 bit environments. > NATE -- Evgeniy Polyakov - 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/