Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Comments: * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...] to me, "kevent" implies an internal kernel subsystem. I would rather call it "uevent" or anything else lacking a 'k'

Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Comments: * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...] to me, kevent implies an internal kernel subsystem. I would rather call it uevent or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix.

Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Comments: > > * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...] to me, "kevent" > implies an internal kernel subsystem. I would rather call it "uevent" > or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix. It is

Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Comments: * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...] to me, "kevent" implies an internal kernel subsystem. I would rather call it "uevent" or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix. * I like the absolute timespec (and use of timespec itself) * more on naming: I think kevent_open

[take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
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.

[take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
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.

Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Comments: * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...] to me, kevent implies an internal kernel subsystem. I would rather call it uevent or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix. * I like the absolute timespec (and use of timespec itself) * more on naming: I think kevent_open

Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-11 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Comments: * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...] to me, kevent implies an internal kernel subsystem. I would rather call it uevent or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix. It is kernel