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Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:23:36 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> 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>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [take35 0/10] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@....mipt.ru) wrote: > > Generic event handling mechanism. > > Kevent is a generic subsytem which allows to handle event notifications. > It supports both level and edge triggered events. It is similar to > poll/epoll in some cases, but it is more scalable, it is faster and > allows to work with essentially eny kind of events. > > Events are provided into kernel through control syscall and can be read > back through ring buffer or using usual syscalls. > Kevent update (i.e. readiness switching) happens directly from internals > of the appropriate state machine of the underlying subsytem (like > network, filesystem, timer or any other). > > Homepage: > http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=kevent > > Documentation page: > http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Kevent > > Consider for inclusion. > > P.S. If you want to be removed from Cc: list just drop me a mail. > > Changes from 'take34' patchset: > * Ported to the 2.6.20-rc7 (9be5b038b1c9d1927c367bf91683458e10d5d4eb) tree. Is there some progress? Some things to be implemented, described or discussed? Thank you. -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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