Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:46:44 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       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>
Subject: Re: [take28-resend_1->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
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On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 09:40:26AM -0500, jamal (hadi@cyberus.ca) wrote:
> > Things like sockets/pipes can only benefit from direct kevent usage 
> > instead of ->poll() and wrappers.
> 
> You should be able change it to use those schemes when it detects
> that the kernel supports them.

I.e. stat() for each new file descriptor - note, that _you_ asked it :)

> cheers,
> jamal

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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