From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/5] KVM statistics data fd-based binary interface
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:06:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15875c41-e1e7-3bf2-a85c-21384684d279@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YMg5xPbmK3myjIX8@unreal>
On 15/06/21 07:25, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> Sorry for my naive questions, but how does telemetry get statistics
> for hypervisors? Why is KVM different from hypervisors or NIC's statistics
> or any other high speed devices (RDMA) that generate tons of data?
Right now, the only way is debugfs but it's slow, and it's disabled when
using lockdown mode; this series is a way to fix this.
I sense that there is another question in there; are you wondering if
another mechanism should be used, for example netlink? The main issue
there is how to identify a VM, since KVM file descriptors don't have a
name. Using a pid works (sort of) for debugfs, but pids are not
appropriate for a stable API. Using a file descriptor as in this series
requires collaboration from the userspace program; howver, once the file
descriptor has been transmitted via SCM_RIGHTS, telemetry can read it
forever without further IPC, and there is proper privilege separation.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-14 21:21 [PATCH v9 0/5] KVM statistics data fd-based binary interface Jing Zhang
2021-06-14 21:21 ` [PATCH v9 1/5] KVM: stats: Separate generic stats from architecture specific ones Jing Zhang
2021-06-14 21:21 ` [PATCH v9 2/5] KVM: stats: Add fd-based API to read binary stats data Jing Zhang
2021-06-16 17:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-16 18:04 ` Jing Zhang
2021-06-14 21:21 ` [PATCH v9 3/5] KVM: stats: Add documentation for statistics data binary interface Jing Zhang
2021-06-16 15:21 ` Greg KH
2021-06-16 16:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-16 18:18 ` Greg KH
2021-06-16 19:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-14 21:21 ` [PATCH v9 4/5] KVM: selftests: Add selftest for KVM " Jing Zhang
2021-06-15 8:03 ` Fuad Tabba
2021-06-16 21:35 ` Jing Zhang
2021-06-14 21:21 ` [PATCH v9 5/5] KVM: stats: Remove code duplication for binary and debugfs stats Jing Zhang
2021-06-15 5:25 ` [PATCH v9 0/5] KVM statistics data fd-based binary interface Leon Romanovsky
2021-06-15 7:06 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-06-15 7:53 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-06-15 11:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-06-15 13:34 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-06-15 8:37 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2021-06-15 9:21 ` Greg KH
2021-06-15 11:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
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