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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:56:18 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
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Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3
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* Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:

> Even if kevent has the same speed, it still allows to handle _any_ 
> kind of events without any major surgery - a very tiny structure of 
> lock and list head and you can process your own kernel event in 
> userspace with timers, signals, io events, private userspace events 
> and others without races and invention of differnet hacks for 
> different types - _this_ is main point.

did it ever occur to you to ... extend epoll? To speed it up? To add a 
new wait syscall to it? Instead of introducing a whole new parallel 
framework?

	Ingo