On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:23:36PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:

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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.

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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?

I think that mean that everybody is happy with APi, design and set of
features. 

Andrew, do you consider kevent for inclusion or declining?

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	Evgeniy Polyakov