On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:01:05AM -0800, Davide Libenzi (davidel@xmailserver.org) wrote: > It does not matter if inside the loop you invert a 20Kx20K matrix or you > copy a byte, they both are O(num_ready).
I probably selected wrong words to desribe, here is in details how kevent differs from epoll. Polling case need to perform additional check before event can be copied to userspace, that check must be done for each even being copied. Kevent does not need that (it needs it for poll emulation) - if event is ready, then it is ready. sys_poll() create a wait queue where different events (callbacks for them) are stored, when driver calls wake_up() appropriate event is added to the ready list and calls wake_up() for that wait queue, which in turn calls ->poll for each event and transfer it to userspace if it is ready. Kevent works slightly different - it does not perform additional check for readiness (although it can, and it does in poll notifications), if event is marked as ready, parked in waiting syscal thread is awakened and event is copied to userspace. Also waiting syscall is awakened through one queue - event is added and wake_up() is called, while in epoll() there are two queues. > - Davide > -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/