From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: [take35 0/10] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:23:36 +0300 Message-ID: <20070205142336.GA24190@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <11703247503374@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Cc: David Miller , Ulrich Drepper , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , Jamal Hadi Salim , Ingo Molnar , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11703247503374@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote: > > Generic event handling mechanism. > > Kevent is a generic subsytem which allows to handle event notifications. > It supports both level and edge triggered events. It is similar to > poll/epoll in some cases, but it is more scalable, it is faster and > allows to work with essentially eny kind of events. > > Events are provided into kernel through control syscall and can be read > back through ring buffer or using usual syscalls. > Kevent update (i.e. readiness switching) happens directly from internals > of the appropriate state machine of the underlying subsytem (like > network, filesystem, timer or any other). > > Homepage: > http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=kevent > > Documentation page: > http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Kevent > > Consider for inclusion. > > P.S. If you want to be removed from Cc: list just drop me a mail. > > Changes from 'take34' patchset: > * Ported to the 2.6.20-rc7 (9be5b038b1c9d1927c367bf91683458e10d5d4eb) tree. Is there some progress? Some things to be implemented, described or discussed? Thank you. -- Evgeniy Polyakov