Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

Ingo Molnar
2007-03-02T11:04:16Z

* 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