From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicholas Miell Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files. Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:32:42 -0700 Message-ID: <1154147562.2451.30.camel@entropy> References: <20060709132446.GB29435@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060724.231708.01289489.davem@davemloft.net> <44C91192.4090303@oracle.com> <20060727200655.GA4586@2ka.mipt.ru> <44C930D5.9020704@oracle.com> <20060728052312.GB11210@2ka.mipt.ru> <44CA586C.4010205@oracle.com> <20060728184445.GA10797@2ka.mipt.ru> <44CA613F.9080806@oracle.com> <44CAD81A.9060401@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Zach Brown , Evgeniy Polyakov , David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.152]:33196 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161462AbWG2EdC (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 00:33:02 -0400 To: Ulrich Drepper In-Reply-To: <44CAD81A.9060401@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 20:38 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Zach Brown wrote: > > Ulrich, would you be satisfied if we didn't > > have the userspace mapped ring on the first pass and only had a > > collection syscall? > > I'm not the one to make a call but why rush things? Let's do it right > from the start. Later changes can only lead to problems with users of > the earlier interface. > Speaking of API design choices, I saw your OLS paper and was wondering if you were familiar with the Solaris port APIs* and, if so, you could please comment on how your proposed event channels are different/better. * http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5168/6mbb3hrir?a=view -- Nicholas Miell