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

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Message-ID: <20061103091645.GA935@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:16:45 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	zhou drangon <drangon.mail@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	drangon.zhou@...il.com
Subject: Re: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:42:04AM +0800, zhou drangon (drangon.mail@...il.com) wrote:
> As for the VFS system, when we introduce the AIO machinism, we add aio_read,
> aio_write, etc... to file ops, and then we make the read, write op to
> call aio_read,
> aio_write, so that we only remain one implement in kernel.
> Can we do event machinism the same way?
> when kevent is robust enough, can we implement epoll/select/io_submit etc...
> base on kevent ??
> In this way, we can simplified the kernel, and epoll can gain
> improvement from kevent.

There is AIO implementaion on top of kevent, although it was confirmed
that it has a good design, except minor API layering changes, it was
postponed for a while.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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