Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964853AbXBLKjV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:39:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964856AbXBLKjV (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:39:21 -0500 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:43336 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964853AbXBLKjT (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:39:19 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:35:10 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Miller , Ulrich Drepper , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Jamal Hadi Salim , Ingo Molnar , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [take35 0/10] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Message-ID: <20070212103510.GC5703@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <11703247503374@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070205142336.GA24190@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070205142336.GA24190@2ka.mipt.ru> 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]); Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:35:54 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1719 Lines: 44 On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:23:36PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote: > > > > Generic event handling mechanism. > > > > 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. > > > > Events are provided into kernel through control syscall and can be read > > back through ring buffer or using usual syscalls. > > 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). > > > > Homepage: > > http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=kevent > > > > Documentation page: > > http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Kevent > > > > Consider for inclusion. > > > > P.S. If you want to be removed from Cc: list just drop me a mail. > > > > Changes from 'take34' patchset: > > * Ported to the 2.6.20-rc7 (9be5b038b1c9d1927c367bf91683458e10d5d4eb) tree. > > Is there some progress? > Some things to be implemented, described or discussed? I think that mean that everybody is happy with APi, design and set of features. Andrew, do you consider kevent for inclusion or declining? -- 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/