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SubjectRe: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Stable kvm userspace interface

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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