On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 19:48 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:32:42PM -0700, Nicholas Miell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Speaking of API design choices, I saw your OLS paper and was wondering > > if you were familiar with the Solaris port APIs* and, if so, you could > > please comment on how your proposed event channels are different/better. > > As far as it concerns kevents - userspace "ports" are just usual users > of kevents, like timer notifications. Add another syscall to "complete" > requested kevents and you get exactly Solaris ports. > It is fairly simple to implement on top of kevents, I just do not see > immediate benefits from that. >
Sorry, I wasn't talking about kevent, I was talking about the interfaces described in "The Need for Asynchronous, Zero-Copy Network I/O" by Ulrich Drepper -- specifically the ec_t type and related functions and the modifications to struct sigevent. -- Nicholas Miell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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
