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Kevent subsystem.

From:  Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To:  "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject:  [1/1] Kevent subsystem.
Date:  Tue, 2 May 2006 12:10:26 +0400
Cc:  shemminger@osdl.org, caitlinb@broadcom.com, kelly@au1.ibm.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org

Kevent subsystem incorporates several AIO/kqueue design notes and
ideas. Kevent can be used both for edge and level triggered notifications.

It supports:
o socket notifications (accept, receiving and sending)
o network AIO (aio_send(), aio_recv() and aio_sendfile()) [3]
o inode notifications (create/remove)
o generic poll()/select() notifications
o timer notifications

More info, design notes, benchmarks (web server based on epoll, kevent, 
kevent_poll; naio_send() vs. send(), naio_recv() vs. recv() with different number 
of sending/receiving users) can be found on project's homepage [1].

Userspace interface was greatly described in LWN article [2].

1. kevent homepage.
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&...

2. LWN article about kevent.
http://lwn.net/Articles/172844/

3. Network AIO (aio_send(), aio_recv(), aio_sendfile()).
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&...

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov



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