On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:30PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([email protected]) 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
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