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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