linux-kernel - Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem

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Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 09:38:10 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>,
	John Stoffel <john@...ffel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export
 shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM)

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:11:46 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:51:01 -0700
> > the hard part is that DRI is a library that gets linked into
> > existing applications... which already are using select ;-(
> > 
> > Fixing X is one thing and not impossible.. fixing all existing
> > games in the field is quite another
> 
> X libraries provide the event loop 

they do?
I could have sworn things like glib etc do their own...
but I'm no desktop guy so I can totally be wrong as well
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