On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:16:36 -0700 (PDT) "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:55:39 +0400 > > > On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:41:18AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Second, introducing > > > kevents, seems unnecessary and hasn't been accepted in the mainline. > > > > kevent was never sent to lkml@ although it showed over 40% win over epoll > > for > > test web server. Sending it to lkml@ is just jumping into ... not into > > technical world, so I posted it first here, but without much attention > > though. > > Frankly I found kevents to be a very strong idea. But there is this huge semantic overload of kevent, poll, epoll, aio, regular sendmsg/recv, posix aio, etc. Perhaps a clean break with the socket interface is needed. Otherwise, there are nasty complications with applications that mix old socket calls and new interface on the same connection. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
