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Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:35:17 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
Cc:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@....com.au>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3


* Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> wrote:

> Btw, 'evserver' in the name means 'event server', so you might think 
> about changing the name :)

why should i change the name? The 'outer' loop, which feeds requests to 
threadlets, is an epoll based event loop. The inner loop, where all the 
application complexity resides, is a threadlet. This is the "more 
intelligent queueing" model i talked about in my reply to David 4 days 
ago:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/22/180
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/22/191

	Ingo
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