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

Evgeniy Polyakov
2007-03-02T10:40:08Z

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:27:14AM +0100, Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz) wrote:
> Maybe. It is not up to me to decide. But "it is faster" is _not_ the
> only merge criterium.

Of course not!
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.

> Pavel
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