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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: pbonzini@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "statsfs" API design
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 21:44:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191109184441.GA5092@avx2> (raw)

> statsfs is a proposal for a new Linux kernel synthetic filesystem,
> to be mounted in /sys/kernel/stats

I think /proc experiment teaches pretty convincingly that dressing
things into a filesystem can be done but ultimately is a stupid idea.
It adds so much overhead for small-to-medium systems.

> The first user of statsfs would be KVM, which is currently exposing
> its stats in debugfs

> Google has KVM patches to gather statistics in a binary format

Which is a right thing to do.

             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-09 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-09 18:44 Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2019-11-10  9:14 ` "statsfs" API design Greg KH
2019-11-10 10:09   ` Brian Masney
2019-11-10 10:14     ` Greg KH
2019-11-10 10:19       ` Greg KH
2019-11-10 15:34   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-11-10 20:58     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-11 20:40       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-11-26 10:07         ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-06 15:56 Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-09 15:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-10 13:04   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-26 10:09     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-26 10:50       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-26 14:18         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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