linux-kernel - Re: [take29 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

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Message-ID: <20061229085503.GB13816@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:55:04 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	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>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@...erus.ca>
Subject: Re: [take29 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:01:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar (mingo@...e.hu) wrote:
> 
> * Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> wrote:
> 
> > Generic event handling mechanism.
> 
> i see it covers alot of event sources, but i cannot see block IO 
> notifications. Am i missing something?

Depending on what it is :)
If you mean kevent based AIO, then it was dropped to reduce size of the
patchset, and in favour of new AIO design.
Other kinds of read/write notifications can be handled by poll/select
notifications.

> 	Ingo

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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