Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757446AbYHDQ7R (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:59:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754339AbYHDQ7D (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:59:03 -0400 Received: from home.keithp.com ([63.227.221.253]:4603 "EHLO keithp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753789AbYHDQ7B (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:59:01 -0400 Subject: Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM) From: Keith Packard To: Alan Cox Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Oeser , John Stoffel , Christoph Hellwig , Eric Anholt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20080804151146.71d9fcce@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1217573919-7496-1-git-send-email-eric@anholt.net> <18581.43362.460694.60862@stoffel.org> <1217785943.23437.330.camel@koto.keithp.com> <200808040135.32563.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> <1217809152.23437.401.camel@koto.keithp.com> <20080804091930.164f31c3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20080804065101.6f70725a@infradead.org> <20080804151146.71d9fcce@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-n7e7Yq3aGhJqU5yuMlLy" Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:58:54 -0700 Message-Id: <1217869134.24714.70.camel@koto.keithp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1363 Lines: 43 --=-n7e7Yq3aGhJqU5yuMlLy Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > X libraries provide the event loop so that isn't really as complex as it > seems. Uh, no, X doesn't. Gtk+ and Qt provide event loops that applications may use, but still many choose to roll their own. > Shuffling the handles around for the benefit of the odd legacy app > isn't something I'd disagree with but DRI and X in the general case can > determine the event loop system used by the application. Yeah, it would be nice if we could just fix all of the existing applications. When you get that working, let me know and I'll take you for a ride in my flying car. --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-n7e7Yq3aGhJqU5yuMlLy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBIlzVOQp8BWwlsTdMRAljLAKCiqvtS9qUtOmmKxMyQte9i8EqOxACgoH6Z P/MJCYGMmpkTnOeFLgwQx+o= =eags -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-n7e7Yq3aGhJqU5yuMlLy-- -- 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/