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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.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 11:30:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4D5A57.6070600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1313690353.30799.22.camel@lappy>

On 08/18/2011 10:59 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> >
> >  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.
>

It really depends on the possibilities.

Adding features is fine, but we need to know they'll be useful to many 
people.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-18 18:31 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
2011-08-18 18:30             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-08-21 23:31         ` Anthony Liguori

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