public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20191109184441.GA5092@avx2 \
    --to=adobriyan@gmail.com \
    --cc=gregkh@linuxfoundation.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox