Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:15:16 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
       Johann Borck <johann.borck@densedata.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:09:34PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:
> Ok, to solve the problem in the way which should be good for both I
> decided to implement additional syscall which will allow to mark any
> event as ready and thus wake up appropriate threads. If userspace will
> request zero events to be marked as ready, syscall will just
> interrupt/wakeup one of the listeners parked in syscall.

Btw, what about putting aditional multiplexer into add/remove/modify
switch? There will be logical 'ready' addon?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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