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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: Add stats VQ to collect information about devices
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:59:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1313690353.30799.22.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4D4DAC.8080304@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 10:36 -0700, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/18/2011 09:29 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > >
> > >  What can you do with it?
> > >
> >
> > I was actually planning on submitting another patch that would add
> > something similar into virtio-net. My plan was to enable collecting
> > statistics regarding memory, network and disk usage in a simple manner
> > without accessing guests.
> >
> > How can this be used? my vision behind it was automation of kernel
> > testing and benchmarking.
> >
> 
> This is something that can be used by very few people, but everyone has 
> to carry it.  It's more efficient to add statistics support to your 
> automation framework (involving the guest).
> 

That was just one example of many possibilities. However, if you feel
this can't be used within monitoring or management platforms anyhow then
I'm ok with dropping it.

-- 

Sasha.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-16 19:47 [PATCH] virtio-blk: Add stats VQ to collect information about devices Sasha Levin
2011-08-17 23:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-18  4:38   ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-18 15:10     ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-18 16:29       ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-18 17:36         ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-18 17:59           ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2011-08-18 18:30             ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-21 23:31         ` Anthony Liguori

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