Re: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-11-03T09:18:37Z

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:42:04AM +0800, zhou drangon (drangon.mail@gmail.com) wrote:
> As for the VFS system, when we introduce the AIO machinism, we add aio_read,
> aio_write, etc... to file ops, and then we make the read, write op to
> call aio_read,
> aio_write, so that we only remain one implement in kernel.
> Can we do event machinism the same way?
> when kevent is robust enough, can we implement epoll/select/io_submit etc...
> base on kevent ??
> In this way, we can simplified the kernel, and epoll can gain
> improvement from kevent.

There is AIO implementaion on top of kevent, although it was confirmed
that it has a good design, except minor API layering changes, it was
postponed for a while.

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Evgeniy Polyakov