On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 15:01 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:23:53 -0700 > > > I was very much surprised by the reactions I got after my OLS talk. > > Lots of people declared interest and even agreed with the approach and > > asked me to do further ahead with all this. For those who missed it, > > the paper and the slides are available on my home page: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/ > > > > As for the next steps I see a number of possible ways. The discussions > > can be held on the usual mailing lists (i.e., lkml and netdev) but due > > to the raw nature of the current proposal I would imagine that would be > > mainly perceived as noise. > > Since I gave a big thumbs up for Evgivny's kevent work yesterday > on linux-kernel, you might want to start by comparing your work > to his. Because his has the advantage that 1) we have code now > and 2) he has written many test applications and performed many > benchmarks against his code which has flushed out most of the > major implementation issues. > > I think most of the people who have encouraged your work are unaware > of Evgivny's kevent stuff, which is extremely unfortunate, the two > works are more similar than they are different. > > I do not think discussing all of this on netdev would be perceived > as noise. :)
While the comparing is going on, how does this compare to Solaris's ports interface? It's documented at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5168/6mbb3hrir?a=view Also, since we're on the subject, why a whole new interface for event queuing instead of extending the existing io_getevents(2) and friends? -- 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
