kvm_read() vs ioctl performance

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <47E46682.4020403 at elischer.org>, Julian Elischer writes:

>>> tried a shared memory page?
>> 
>> No, but I built a test and kvm_read is 70 times
>> faster, in
>> case anyone is interested.

The shared memory approach is much better than that, you should
go that way.

Look at the adlink driver for an example.


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