From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@citrix.com>
Cc: Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <matiasevara@gmail.com>,
Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <matias.vara@vates.fr>,
Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>,
Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] xen/memory : Add stats_table resource type
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:09:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18494326-7cb2-3fe4-e5e9-98e2b6260abc@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <63208954-3C7A-4C91-97C3-8D6EA21F29C8@citrix.com>
On 22.06.2022 12:05, George Dunlap wrote:
>> On 22 Jun 2022, at 09:59, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>> In general I also have to admit that I'm not sure the exposed data really
>> qualifies as a "resource", and hence I'm not really convinced of your use
>> of the resource mapping interface as a vehicle.
>
> I’m not sure if I’d call any of the things currently mappable via that interface (ioreq pages, vmcall buffers, etc) “resources”. I’m not sure why the name was chosen, except perhaps that it was meant to be a more generalized form of “page” or “pages".
>
> The alternate is to try to plumb through a new ad-hoc hypercall. Andy suggested Matias use this interface specifically to avoid having to do that; and it sounds like he believes the interface was designed specifically for this kind of thing.
Okay. I guess I wasn't aware of that suggestion.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-22 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-17 14:33 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add a new acquire resource to query vcpu statistics Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2022-05-17 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] xen/memory : Add stats_table resource type Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2022-06-17 20:54 ` George Dunlap
2022-06-29 9:44 ` Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2022-06-22 8:59 ` Jan Beulich
2022-06-22 10:05 ` George Dunlap
2022-06-22 10:09 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2022-05-17 14:33 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] tools/misc: Add xen-stats tool Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2022-05-31 11:16 ` Anthony PERARD
2022-06-03 11:08 ` Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2022-06-20 8:56 ` Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
2022-06-17 3:26 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Add a new acquire resource to query vcpu statistics Henry Wang
2022-06-17 19:54 ` George Dunlap
2022-06-24 13:06 ` Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
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