From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [take28-resend_1->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:21:07 -0500 Message-ID: <1166710867.3749.56.camel@localhost> References: <3154985aa0591036@2ka.mipt.ru> <11666924573643@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061221103539.GA4099@2ka.mipt.ru> <458A64E5.4050703@garzik.org> <20061221104918.GA16744@2ka.mipt.ru> <1166708885.3749.49.camel@localhost> <20061221140429.GA25214@2ka.mipt.ru> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.237]:57272 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753239AbWLUOVL (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:21:11 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so989144nze for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:21:10 -0800 (PST) To: Evgeniy Polyakov In-Reply-To: <20061221140429.GA25214@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 17:04 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > I modified world-wide used web server lighttpd and ran a lot of tests > with it (compared to epoll version with major performance win). > > I was asked yesterday by Jan Kneschke (lighttpd main developer) if > kevent API is ready so he could include my patch into mainline lighttpd > tree, but I answered 'I do not know if kevent will be or not included, > everyone keeps silence'. > Ok, so you are building the momentum then. People like Jan are the users of such API and should be speaking up. Then kernel people will be forced to look at it. > I just do not know _what_ else should be done not even for inclusion - > but at least for some progress. I know you are frustrated but stop doing the above like a broken vinyl record, it doesnt help your case. > You want libevent to be patched? Its site is currently down, but ok, I > will create a patch. > I promise in 2 weeks to migrate an app or two that i have that use libevent to your version if you have it by then. I will then test and give you my opinion. cheers, jamal