Re: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 07:03:26 EST


Nate Diller wrote:
Indesiciveness has certainly been an issue here, but I remember akpm
and Ulrich both giving concrete suggestions. I was particularly
interested in Andrew's request to explain and justify the differences
between kevent and BSD's kqueue interface. Was there a discussion
that I missed? I am very interested to see your work on this
mechanism merged, because you've clearly emphasized performance and
shown impressive results. But it seems like we lose out on a lot by
throwing out all the applications that already use kqueue.


kqueue looks pretty nice, the filter/note models in particular. I don't see anything about ring buffers though.

I also wonder about the asynchronous event side (send), not just the event reception side.

Jeff


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