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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Laurence Oberman <oberman.l@gmail.com>
Cc: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>,
	"Seymour, Shane M" <shane.seymour@hp.com>,
	"linux-api@vger.kernel.org" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi" <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley (JBottomley@parallels.com)"
	<JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	"Laurence Oberman (loberman@redhat.com)" <loberman@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] implementing tape statistics single file vs multi-file in sysfs
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 10:45:06 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150208024506.GC15396@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACE69613-157F-4516-8499-EF8242D26736@gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 09:27:05PM -0500, Laurence Oberman wrote:
> Hello
> Its not going to be tens of thousands of devices. That count was an
> aggregate based on 1000's of servers.
> In reality its unlikely to ever be more than 100 tapes drives per
> individual Linux kernel instance.
> Therefore sysfs will be the valid way to do this and make the data
> available to user space.

Even if it is only 2 tape drives, again, what's wrong with using the
existing i/o statistic interfaces that all block devices have?  Don't go
making special one-off interfaces for one type of device if at all
possible.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-08  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-06  0:20 [RFC] implementing tape statistics single file vs multi-file in sysfs Seymour, Shane M
     [not found] ` <DDB9C85B850785449757F9914A034FCB3BF3EADA-4I1V4pQFGigSZAcGdq5asR6epYMZPwEe5NbjCUgZEJk@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-06  9:13   ` Bryn M. Reeves
     [not found]     ` <20150206091354.GA1143-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-06 13:01       ` Greg KH
2015-02-06 12:59   ` Greg KH
     [not found]     ` <20150206125916.GB26247-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-06 15:41       ` Bryn M. Reeves
2015-02-07  4:07         ` Greg KH
2015-02-08  2:27           ` Laurence Oberman
2015-02-08  2:45             ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-02-08  8:32               ` "Kai Mäkisara (Kolumbus)"
     [not found]               ` <20150208024506.GC15396-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-08 17:35                 ` James Bottomley
     [not found]           ` <20150207040743.GB29944-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-10 14:27             ` Bryn M. Reeves
     [not found]               ` <20150210142719.GA1437-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2015-02-10 22:30                 ` Greg KH
2015-02-11 11:32                   ` Bryn M. Reeves

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