Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process events connector value | From | Chandra Seetharaman <> | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:54:25 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:39 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote: > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 12:14 -0700, Chandra Seetharaman wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 04:49 -0700, Matt Helsley wrote: > > > "Deprecate" existing Process Events connector interface and add a new one > > > that works cleanly on biarch platforms. > > > > > > Any expansion of the previous event structure would break userspace's ability > > > to workaround the biarch incompatibility problem. Hence this patch creates a > > > new interface and generates events (for both when necessary). > > > > Is there a reason why the # of listeners part is removed (basically the > > LISTEN/IGNORE) ? and why as part of this patch ? > > Michael Kerrisk had some objections to LISTEN/IGNORE and I've been > looking into making a connector function that would replace them. They > exist primarily to improve performance by avoiding the memory allocation > in cn_netlink_send() when there are no listeners.
If it not related this bug, can you please separate them.
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