Re: [take29 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Fri Dec 29 2006 - 04:37:51 EST


On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 05:01:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> * Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Generic event handling mechanism.
>
> i see it covers alot of event sources, but i cannot see block IO
> notifications. Am i missing something?

Depending on what it is :)
If you mean kevent based AIO, then it was dropped to reduce size of the
patchset, and in favour of new AIO design.
Other kinds of read/write notifications can be handled by poll/select
notifications.

> Ingo

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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