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]>
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