Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: Add stats VQ to collect information aboutdevices

[Avi Kivity]

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).

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

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