Re: [ANNOUNCE] AEM v0.5.3 on kernel 2.6.0

[Frederic Rossi]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Frederic Rossi wrote:
> > 
> > AEM (Asynchronous Event Mechanism) is an extension providing a native 
> > support for asynchronous events in the Linux kernel. 
> 
> 
> The kernel already supports this, 

this? you mean crossing the kernel to user space right?

> via netlink.
> 

I can imagine many ways to solve "this", netlink, write data
to the file system, /proc or whatever system calls (read ()?)

For this specific part AEM is using a memory based scheme.
Unless you have something very specific in mind, I don't see
how netlink could be of any help to solve the problem efficiently.

> 	Jeff

Frederic
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