Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:02:29 -0700 | From | Zach Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/4] kevent: core files. |
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> I do not think if we do a ring buffer that events should be obtainable > via a syscall at all. Rather, I think this system call should be > purely "sleep until ring is not empty".
Mmm, yeah, of course. That's much simpler. I'm looking forward to Evgeniy's next patch set.
> The ring buffer size, as Evgeniy also tried to describe, is bounded > purely by the number of registered events.
Yeah. fwiw, fs/aio.c has this property today.
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