On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > 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. > > P.S. If you want to be removed from Cc: list just drop me a mail. > > 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? Thank you. -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
