From: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:43:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5114F2D8.5020300@250bpm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130207144433.527ef024.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 07/02/13 23:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That's a nice changelog but it omitted a critical thing: why do you
> think the kernel needs this feature? What's the value and use case for
> being able to poll these descriptors?
To address the question, I've written down detailed description of the
challenges of the network protocol development in user space and how the
proposed feature addresses the problems.
It's too long to fit into ChangeLog, but it may be worth reading when
trying to judge the merit of the patch.
It can be found here: http://www.250bpm.com/blog:16
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-08 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-07 6:41 [PATCH 1/1] eventfd: implementation of EFD_MASK flag Martin Sustrik
2013-02-07 19:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-07 20:11 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-08 1:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-08 5:26 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-08 6:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-08 6:55 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-08 22:08 ` Eric Wong
2013-02-09 3:26 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-07 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2013-02-07 23:30 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-08 12:43 ` Martin Sustrik [this message]
2013-02-08 22:21 ` Eric Wong
2013-02-09 2:40 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-09 3:54 ` Eric Wong
2013-02-09 7:36 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-02-09 11:51 ` Eric Wong
2013-02-09 12:04 ` Martin Sustrik
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2013-02-07 23:29 Martin Sustrik
2013-02-15 2:45 ` Michał Mirosław
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