Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: Add stats VQ to collect information about devices | From | Sasha Levin <> | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:59:13 +0300 |
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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.
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Sasha.
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