Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 07:17:08 EST


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:09:34PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Ok, to solve the problem in the way which should be good for both I
> decided to implement additional syscall which will allow to mark any
> event as ready and thus wake up appropriate threads. If userspace will
> request zero events to be marked as ready, syscall will just
> interrupt/wakeup one of the listeners parked in syscall.

Btw, what about putting aditional multiplexer into add/remove/modify
switch? There will be logical 'ready' addon?

--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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