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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:51:43 +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 11:42:04AM -0500, jamal (hadi@...erus.ca) wrote: > > > > Things like sockets/pipes can only benefit from direct kevent usage > > > > instead of ->poll() and wrappers. > > > > > > You should be able change it to use those schemes when it detects > > > that the kernel supports them. > > > > I.e. stat() for each new file descriptor - note, that _you_ asked it :) > > Didnt follow. Is there some issue with libevent you mean? libevent provides file descriptor without any additional info about it - so when it is added into the waiting subsystem, userspace must select different usage cases (i.e. different kevent notifications for different types of file descriptor - socket notifications for sockets and pipes, poll/select for all others), this requires stat() call per provided file descriptor. Event addition/waiting itself is the same - only parameters (type and requested event) are changed. > cheers, > jamal -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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