From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751651AbWHARCc (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:02:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751655AbWHARCc (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:02:32 -0400 Received: from tetsuo.zabbo.net ([207.173.201.20]:7123 "EHLO tetsuo.zabbo.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564AbWHARCb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 13:02:31 -0400 Message-ID: <44CF8925.2030706@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:02:29 -0700 From: Zach Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files. References: <20060709132446.GB29435@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060724.231708.01289489.davem@davemloft.net> <44C91192.4090303@oracle.com> <20060731.180226.131918297.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20060731.180226.131918297.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I do not think if we do a ring buffer that events should be obtainable > via a syscall at all. Rather, I think this system call should be > purely "sleep until ring is not empty". Mmm, yeah, of course. That's much simpler. I'm looking forward to Evgeniy's next patch set. > The ring buffer size, as Evgeniy also tried to describe, is bounded > purely by the number of registered events. Yeah. fwiw, fs/aio.c has this property today. - z