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

[Sasha Levin]

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.

-- 

Sasha.

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