linux-kernel - Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

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Message-ID: <20061122121516.GA7229@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:15:16 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, 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>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Alexander Viro <aviro@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:09:34PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@....mipt.ru) wrote:
> Ok, to solve the problem in the way which should be good for both I
> decided to implement additional syscall which will allow to mark any
> event as ready and thus wake up appropriate threads. If userspace will
> request zero events to be marked as ready, syscall will just
> interrupt/wakeup one of the listeners parked in syscall.

Btw, what about putting aditional multiplexer into add/remove/modify
switch? There will be logical 'ready' addon?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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