Satendra Singh Thakur wrote:
> -Added an ioctl to read values of multiple elements at once
> -Added an ioctl to write values of multiple elements at once
> -In the absence of above ioctls user needs to call N ioctls to
>  read/write value of N elements which requires N context switches

And why are these N context switches a problem?

> -Above mentioned ioctl will be useful for alsa utils such as amixer
>  which reads all controls of given sound card

Is there a noticeable difference?


Regards,
Clemens

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