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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-06-04 01:44:04 +0200
committerKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>2009-06-04 01:44:04 +0200
commit1e03b754aef576a5cb75f01b1805cdc1f9cc292f (patch)
tree04fed54897345b57cfef598c3fe5eb00b93e53f8 /NEWS
parentb61f48a0e8a4ad264bc0e904ea8bf3b054d5f562 (diff)
udevd: convert to event worker processes
Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, the no longer needed worker processes get killed.
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Bugfixes.
+Event processes now get re-used after they handled an event. This reduces
+pressure on the CPU significantly because cloned event processes no longer
+cause page faults in the main daemon. After the events have settled, the
+no longer needed worker processes get killed.
+
+To be able to use signalfd(), udev depends on kernel version 2.6.25 now.
+Also inotify support is required now to run udev.
+
The format of the queue exported by the udev damon has changed. There is
-no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The queue can be accessed with
-udevadm settle and libudedv.
+no longer a /dev/.udev/queue/ directory. The current event queue can be
+accessed with udevadm settle and libudedv.
udev 142
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