Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files.

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 06:34:24 EST


Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> - if there is space, report it in the ring buffer. Yes, the buffer
>> can be optional, then all events are reported by the system call.
>
> That requires a copy, which can neglect syscall overhead.
> Do we really want it to be done?

Please note that we're talking about events here, not actual data. So
only the event is being copied, which is presumably rather small compared
to the data.

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