From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Jon Masters" <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Marcelo Tosatti" <marcelo@kvack.org>,
"Daniel Spang" <daniel.spang@gmail.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>, "Al Boldi" <a1426z@gawab.com>,
"Zan Lynx" <zlynx@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:43:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080209114329.68820224@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0802090833h7a600ee8x87edb423cbbb5d79@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 01:33:49 +0900
"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Where is the netlink interface? Polling an FD is so last century :)
>
> to be honest, I don't know anyone use netlink and why hope receive
> low memory notify by netlink.
>
> poll() is old way, but it works good enough.
More importantly, all gtk+ programs, as well as most databases and other
system daemons have a poll() loop as their main loop.
A file descriptor fits that main loop perfectly.
--
All rights reversed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-09 15:19 [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6 KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-09 16:02 ` Jon Masters
2008-02-09 16:33 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-09 16:43 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-02-09 16:49 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-11 15:36 ` [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6, " Jonathan Corbet
2008-02-11 15:46 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-17 14:49 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-19 7:36 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-19 15:00 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-19 19:02 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-19 20:18 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-19 20:43 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-19 22:28 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-20 1:54 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-20 2:07 ` Rik van Riel
2008-02-20 2:48 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-20 4:57 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-20 5:21 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-02-20 4:36 ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-01 23:35 ` Tom May
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