Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:26:13 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Stable kvm userspace interface |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:47, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> 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...
Jeff
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