Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:19:27 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Stable kvm userspace interface |
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Hi!
> >>Can we please avoid adding a ton of new ioctls? > >>ioctls inevitably require 64-bit compat code for > >>certain architectures, whereas sysfs/procfs does not. > > > >For performance reasons, an ascii string based > >interface is not > >desireable here, some of these calls should be > >optimized to > >the point of counting cycles. > > sysfs does not require ASCII...
Yep, but at that point you have 32 vs. 64bit nightmare back... and stronger, because sysfs does not have compat handling.
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