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From: Alan Cox <alan@...>

To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...>

Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@...>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...>, John Stoffel <john@...>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>, Eric Anholt <eric@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM)

Date: Monday, August 4, 2008 - 10:11 am

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:51:01 -0700
quoted text> the hard part is that DRI is a library that gets linked into existing
> applications... which already are using select ;-(
> 
> Fixing X is one thing and not impossible.. fixing all existing games in
> the field is quite another

X libraries provide the event loop so that isn't really as complex as it
seems. Shuffling the handles around for the benefit of the odd legacy app
isn't something I'd disagree with but DRI and X in the general case can
determine the event loop system used by the application.

Alan
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[PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DRM-GEM, Eric Anholt, (Fri Aug 1, 2:58 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Aug 1, 4:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Sun Aug 3, 9:54 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Nick Piggin, (Mon Aug 4, 5:02 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 5:58 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Aug 5, 12:43 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Dave Airlie, (Mon Aug 18, 9:17 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Aug 19, 6:00 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Tue Aug 19, 12:46 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Jesse Barnes, (Tue Aug 19, 2:50 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Jerome Glisse, (Thu Aug 21, 9:42 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Jesse Barnes, (Thu Aug 21, 12:15 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Jesse Barnes, (Wed Aug 6, 8:45 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Tue Aug 5, 1:19 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Dave Airlie, (Mon Aug 4, 6:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 6:26 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Nick Piggin, (Mon Aug 4, 6:43 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 7:45 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Hugh Dickins, (Mon Aug 4, 1:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Aug 10, 9:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Nick Piggin, (Tue Aug 5, 12:28 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 1:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Hugh Dickins, (Mon Aug 4, 2:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 3:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Hugh Dickins, (Mon Aug 4, 3:55 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., John Stoffel, (Mon Aug 4, 10:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Tue Aug 5, 12:28 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Stephane Marchesin, (Wed Aug 6, 12:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Aug 6, 1:24 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Aug 10, 9:34 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Stephane Marchesin, (Wed Aug 6, 10:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Wed Aug 6, 10:57 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Stephane Marchesin, (Wed Aug 6, 1:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Wed Aug 6, 1:56 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Stephane Marchesin, (Wed Aug 6, 2:09 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Wed Aug 6, 5:22 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 5:37 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Fri Aug 1, 7:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Aug 10, 9:23 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup for DRM-GEM, Keith Packard, (Sun Aug 10, 11:03 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., John Stoffel, (Sun Aug 3, 8:49 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Sun Aug 3, 1:52 pm)

files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shmem_fi..., Ingo Oeser, (Sun Aug 3, 7:35 pm)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Keith Packard, (Sun Aug 3, 8:19 pm)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Alan Cox, (Mon Aug 4, 4:19 am)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Aug 4, 9:51 am)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Alan Cox, (Mon Aug 4, 10:11 am)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 12:58 pm)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Ingo Oeser, (Mon Aug 4, 5:46 pm)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Keith Packard, (Mon Aug 4, 8:34 pm)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Dave Airlie, (Mon Aug 4, 6:20 pm)

Re: files/process scaling problem? (was: [PATCH] Export shme..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Aug 4, 12:38 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Hugh Dickins, (Fri Aug 1, 6:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Keith Packard, (Fri Aug 1, 2:06 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Export shmem_file_setup and shmem_getpage for DR..., Eric Anholt, (Fri Aug 1, 3:10 am)

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