Subject: Re: kqueue and NFS
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/29/2002 09:44:04
Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > I'd think that polling would be appropriate in this context,
> > since that's basically what apps would do before kqueue.
> > but at least with kqueue it's being done in the kernel
> > so that apps don't have to know about it. if kqueue doesn't do this
> > then kqueue is pretty much useless for NFS.
>
> Hm, okay, but presumably this behavior would only be enabled if there
> are actually active kqueues watching a given vnode?
Yes, that's the plan.
Jaromir
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