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Message-ID: <20061221143621.GA32706@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:36:21 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	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>
Subject: Re: [take28-resend_1->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:23:37PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@....mipt.ru) wrote:
> Ok, when site will be ready I will patch libevent and post patch or link
> in this thread. I plan to complete it this week.

Btw, it uses only read/write/signal on fd events, so it must use
->poll() and thus be as fast as epoll. 

Things like sockets/pipes can only benefit from direct kevent usage 
instead of ->poll() and wrappers.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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