Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process eventsconnector value

From: Matt Helsley
Date: Tue Jun 27 2006 - 21:35:56 EST


On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:54 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:39 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:14 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
<snip>

> > > Is there a reason why the # of listeners part is removed (basically the
> > > LISTEN/IGNORE) ? and why as part of this patch ?
> >
> > Michael Kerrisk had some objections to LISTEN/IGNORE and I've been
> > looking into making a connector function that would replace them. They
> > exist primarily to improve performance by avoiding the memory allocation
> > in cn_netlink_send() when there are no listeners.
>
> If it not related this bug, can you please separate them.
>
> <snip>

OK, I'll separate it for the next submission.

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley

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