On 28/05/20 00:21, David Ahern wrote:
> On 5/27/20 3:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> I see what you meant now. statsfs can also be used to enumerate objects
>> if one is so inclined (with the prototype in patch 7, for example, each
>> network interface becomes a directory).
>
> there are many use
On 5/27/20 3:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I see what you meant now. statsfs can also be used to enumerate objects
> if one is so inclined (with the prototype in patch 7, for example, each
> network interface becomes a directory).
there are many use cases that have 100's to 1000's have network de
On 27/05/20 23:27, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:07:53 +0200 Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> Again, I have little KVM knowledge, but BPF also uses a fd-based API,
>>> and carries stats over the same syscall interface.
>>
>> Can BPF stats (for BPF scripts created by whatever process is r
On Wed, 27 May 2020 23:07:53 +0200 Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Again, I have little KVM knowledge, but BPF also uses a fd-based API,
> > and carries stats over the same syscall interface.
>
> Can BPF stats (for BPF scripts created by whatever process is running in
> the system) be collected by an e
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:03:10PM +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> There is currently no common way for Linux kernel subsystems to expose
> statistics to userspace shared throughout the Linux kernel; subsystems have
> to take care of gathering and displaying statistics by themselves, for
On 27/05/20 22:23, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 15:14:41 +0200 Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
>> Regarding the config, as I said the idea is to gather multiple
>> subsystems' statistics, therefore there wouldn't be a single
>> configuration method like in netlink.
>> For example
On Wed, 27 May 2020 15:14:41 +0200 Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> Regarding the config, as I said the idea is to gather multiple
> subsystems' statistics, therefore there wouldn't be a single
> configuration method like in netlink.
> For example in kvm there are file descriptors for configur
On 27/05/20 15:33, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> I don't really know a lot about the networking subsystem, and as it was
>> pointed out in another email on patch 7 by Andrew, networking needs to
>> atomically gather and display statistics in order to make them consistent,
>> and currently this is not suppo
> I don't really know a lot about the networking subsystem, and as it was
> pointed out in another email on patch 7 by Andrew, networking needs to
> atomically gather and display statistics in order to make them consistent,
> and currently this is not supported by stats_fs but could be added in
> f
The file system is mounted on /sys/kernel/stats and would be already used
by kvm. Statsfs was initially introduced by Paolo Bonzini [1].
What's the direct motivation for this work? Moving KVM stats out of
debugfs?
There's many reasons: one of these is not using debugfs for statistics,
but
On Tue, 26 May 2020 13:03:10 +0200 Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> There is currently no common way for Linux kernel subsystems to expose
> statistics to userspace shared throughout the Linux kernel; subsystems have
> to take care of gathering and displaying statistics by themselves, for
> exam
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