From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:14:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:14:01 -0400 Received: from sncgw.nai.com ([161.69.248.229]:38064 "EHLO mcafee-labs.nai.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:13:31 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3B6B662F.3E83C22F@kegel.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:17:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi To: Dan Kegel Subject: RE: Could /dev/epoll deliver aio completion notifications? (was: Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Zach Brown , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Christopher Smith , Petru Paler Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04-Aug-2001 Dan Kegel wrote: > Davide, is that along the lines of what you were thinking of > for /dev/epoll and disk files? (Plain old polling of disk > files doesn't make much sense unless you're just interested in > them growing, I suppose; aio completion notification is what you > really want.) Dan, sorry for the response delay but I was in Vacation Mode ( new CPU execution mode that will be included in the next x86 generation ). I trashed my original idea to extend /dev/epoll to other other files coz this will make the patch way more intrusive. The only easy extension that comes in my mind is pipes. As soon as I'll finish to read the remaining 4231 messages in my mbox I'll fix /dev/epoll to get rid of stale events that I ( and Erich Nahum ) noticed in the current implementation. - Davide