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.
next 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
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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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