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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com>
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Subject: Re: Kernel to user space communication
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:50:05 +0100
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victor <ramkumar2579@gmail.com> writes:
>   Is anyone aware of any performance measurements for kernel to user
>   space data access? The techniques i can think of are netlink
>   sockets, mmap to a dev and ioctl. But i could not find any pointers
>   on which one to use.

System call arguments and socket options would be two additional ones.