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

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Message-ID: <44CF8925.2030706@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:02:29 -0700
From:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	johnpol@....mipt.ru, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.


> I do not think if we do a ring buffer that events should be obtainable
> via a syscall at all.  Rather, I think this system call should be
> purely "sleep until ring is not empty".

Mmm, yeah, of course.  That's much simpler.  I'm looking forward to
Evgeniy's next patch set.

> The ring buffer size, as Evgeniy also tried to describe, is bounded
> purely by the number of registered events.

Yeah.  fwiw, fs/aio.c has this property today.

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