From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751885AbWG2Pss (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:48:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751136AbWG2Pss (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:48:48 -0400 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:29156 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751097AbWG2Psr (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:48:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:48:17 +0400 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Nicholas Miell Cc: Ulrich Drepper , Zach Brown , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files. Message-ID: <20060729154817.GB25926@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20060724.231708.01289489.davem@davemloft.net> <44C91192.4090303@oracle.com> <20060727200655.GA4586@2ka.mipt.ru> <44C930D5.9020704@oracle.com> <20060728052312.GB11210@2ka.mipt.ru> <44CA586C.4010205@oracle.com> <20060728184445.GA10797@2ka.mipt.ru> <44CA613F.9080806@oracle.com> <44CAD81A.9060401@redhat.com> <1154147562.2451.30.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1154147562.2451.30.camel@entropy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.5 (2ka.mipt.ru [0.0.0.0]); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:48:18 +0400 (MSD) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:32:42PM -0700, Nicholas Miell (nmiell@comcast.net) wrote: > Speaking of API design choices, I saw your OLS paper and was wondering > if you were familiar with the Solaris port APIs* and, if so, you could > please comment on how your proposed event channels are different/better. As far as it concerns kevents - userspace "ports" are just usual users of kevents, like timer notifications. Add another syscall to "complete" requested kevents and you get exactly Solaris ports. It is fairly simple to implement on top of kevents, I just do not see immediate benefits from that. > -- > Nicholas Miell -- Evgeniy Polyakov