From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:35:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20060822163535.ddea8797.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1156281182.2476.63.camel@entropy> <20060822143747.68acaf99.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20060822150144.058d9052.akpm@osdl.org> <20060822.151747.56047759.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, nmiell@comcast.net, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, zach.brown@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3539 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932262AbWHVXgL (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:36:11 -0400 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20060822.151747.56047759.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:17:47 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:01:44 -0700 > > > If there _is_ something wrong with kqueue then let us identify those > > weaknesses and then diverge. > > Evgeniy already enumerated this, both on his web site and in the > current thread. Best I can find is http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/blog/devel/kevent/index.html, and that's doesn't cover these things. At some stage we're going to need to tell Linus (for example) what we've done and why we did it. I don't know how to do that.