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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:43:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > John Stoffel wrote: > >Avi> This patch defines a bunch of ioctl()s on /dev/kvm. The ioctl()s > >Avi> allow adding memory to a virtual machine, adding a virtual cpu to > >Avi> a virtual machine (at most one at this time), transferring > >Avi> control to the virtual cpu, and querying about guest pages > >Avi> changed by the virtual machine. > > > >Yuck. ioclts are deprecated, you should be using /sysfs instead for > >stuff like this, or configfs. > > > > I need to pass small amounts of data back and forth very efficiently. > sysfs and configfs are more for one-time admin stuff, not for continuous > device control. I agree, sysfs or configfs is not for what you are wanting to do here. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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