From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM)
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 09:58:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217869134.24714.70.camel@koto.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080804151146.71d9fcce@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 15:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> X libraries provide the event loop so that isn't really as complex as it
> seems.
Uh, no, X doesn't. Gtk+ and Qt provide event loops that applications may
use, but still many choose to roll their own.
> Shuffling the handles around for the benefit of the odd legacy app
> isn't something I'd disagree with but DRI and X in the general case can
> determine the event loop system used by the application.
Yeah, it would be nice if we could just fix all of the existing
applications. When you get that working, let me know and I'll take you
for a ride in my flying car.
--
keith.packard@intel.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-04 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-01 6:58 [PATCH] PCI: Add pci_read_base() API Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 6:58 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 6:58 ` [PATCH] drm: Add GEM ("graphics execution manager") to i915 driver Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 15:44 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-01 18:11 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-06 1:11 ` Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 7:10 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Eric Anholt
2008-08-01 10:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-01 18:06 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-01 20:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-01 23:01 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-03 12:49 ` John Stoffel
2008-08-03 17:52 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-03 23:35 ` files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM) Ingo Oeser
2008-08-04 0:19 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 8:19 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 13:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 14:11 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-04 16:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-04 16:58 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2008-08-04 21:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-08-04 22:20 ` Dave Airlie
2008-08-05 0:34 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-11 1:23 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-11 3:03 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup " Keith Packard
2008-08-04 1:54 ` [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage " Keith Packard
2008-08-04 9:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-04 10:26 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-04 11:45 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 17:09 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-04 17:25 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 18:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-04 19:20 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 19:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-04 21:37 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-05 2:25 ` John Stoffel
2008-08-05 4:28 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-06 16:20 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-06 17:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-06 17:32 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-06 17:56 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-06 18:09 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-06 21:22 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-07 2:16 ` Stephane Marchesin
2008-08-07 2:57 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-11 1:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-05 4:28 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-11 1:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-04 21:58 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-04 22:22 ` Dave Airlie
2008-08-05 4:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-05 5:19 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-07 0:45 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-08-19 1:17 ` Dave Airlie
2008-08-19 10:00 ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-19 16:46 ` Keith Packard
2008-08-19 18:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-08-21 13:42 ` Jerome Glisse
2008-08-21 16:15 ` Jesse Barnes
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