From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 5 23: 2:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2FD37B7EE for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:02:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA28978 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:06:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA27226 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:02:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (peter1.yahoo.com [208.48.107.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C0037B6D2 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:02:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3BF1CE0; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:02:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: kqueue API and rough code In-Reply-To: Message from Jonathan Lemon of "Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:21:26 CDT." <20000406002126.B80578@prism.flugsvamp.com> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:02:23 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000406060223.CF3BF1CE0@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Lemon wrote: > I would like to solicit comments on the kqueue mechanism > that I've been working on. Currently, it will report events > for sockets, vnodes, and aio requests, and hopefully is > designed to be extensible. > > An API document and rough code is at: > > http://www.flugsvamp.com/~jlemon/fbsd Jonathan already knows, but a couple of guys at yahoo are very excited about this stuff as it looks like it can replace our hack that we've been using for a few years. This stuff is designed to replace a select/poll loop and avoids the expensive setup/teardown of select/poll state each time around the loop. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message