Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:12:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:12:20 -0500 Received: from fluent1.pyramid.net ([206.100.220.212]:13870 "EHLO fluent1.pyramid.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 20:12:01 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011105171103.00be99d0@10.1.1.42> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:11:47 -0800 To: Daniel Phillips , "Albert D. Cahalan" From: Stephen Satchell Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011106005304Z17249-18972+252@humbolt.nl.linux.org> In-Reply-To: <200111052246.fA5MkxG288247@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <200111052246.fA5MkxG288247@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At 01:54 AM 11/6/01 +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: >Lets just not lose sight of the overhead connected with ASCII proc IO, it's a >lot more than some seem to think. Any idea what the overhead connected with a binary proc IO would be? From looking at some of the code, it would appear that you have a lot of overhead no matter what you do. Satch - 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/