Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030455AbXBZS5L (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:57:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030456AbXBZS5K (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:57:10 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortel.com ([47.129.242.57]:55647 "EHLO zcars04f.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030455AbXBZS5J (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:57:09 -0500 Message-ID: <45E32D61.7060403@nortel.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:56:33 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evgeniy Polyakov CC: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Ulrich Drepper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Zach Brown , "David S. Miller" , Suparna Bhattacharya , Davide Libenzi , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3 References: <20070221211355.GA7302@elte.hu> <20070221233111.GB5895@elte.hu> <45DCD9E5.2010106@redhat.com> <20070222074044.GA4158@elte.hu> <20070222113148.GA3781@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070226131133.GA11777@elte.hu> <20070226173701.GD22454@2ka.mipt.ru> <1172513950.3280.388.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070226183856.GF22454@2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070226183856.GF22454@2ka.mipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Feb 2007 18:56:39.0385 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8D24C90:01C759D7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 536 Lines: 15 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > I never ever tried to say _everything_ must be driven by events. > IO must be driven, it is a must IMO. Do you disagree with Linus' post about the difficulty of treating open(), fstat(), page faults, etc. as events? Or do you not consider them to be IO? Chris - 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/