linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.

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Message-ID: <44CA586C.4010205@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:33:16 -0700
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.


> I completely agree that existing kevent interface is not the best, so
> I'm opened for any suggestions.
> Should kevent creation/removing/modification be separated too?

Yeah, I think so.

>>> Hmm, it looks like I'm lost here...
>> Yeah, it seems my description might not have sunk in :).  We're giving
>> userspace a way to collect events without performing a system call.
> 
> And why do we want this?

So that event collection can be very efficient.

> How glibc is supposed to determine, that some events already fired and
> such requests will return immediately, or for example how timer events
> will be managed?

...

That was what my previous mail was all about!

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