Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Juergen Gross
On 11.09.19 17:20, Jan Beulich wrote: On 11.09.2019 17:06, Juergen Gross wrote: On 11.09.19 17:01, Jan Beulich wrote: On 11.09.2019 15:01, Juergen Gross wrote: And with the idea to "mount" it in the dom0 kernel's sysfs I think xensysfs (or xenhypfs?) seems appropriate. Well, such "mounting"

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Jan Beulich
On 11.09.2019 17:06, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 11.09.19 17:01, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 11.09.2019 15:01, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> And with the idea to "mount" it in the dom0 kernel's sysfs I think >>> xensysfs (or xenhypfs?) seems appropriate. >> >> Well, such "mounting" is going to be indirect, I

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Juergen Gross
On 11.09.19 17:01, Jan Beulich wrote: On 11.09.2019 15:01, Juergen Gross wrote: On 11.09.19 13:54, Jan Beulich wrote: On 11.09.2019 13:29, Juergen Gross wrote: On 11.09.19 13:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: Second, is xenfs really the best name here?  It is ambiguous with the still-essential (even t

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Jan Beulich
On 11.09.2019 15:01, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 11.09.19 13:54, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 11.09.2019 13:29, Juergen Gross wrote: >>> On 11.09.19 13:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: Second, is xenfs really the best name here?  It is ambiguous with the still-essential (even though it really needs to

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Juergen Gross
On 11.09.19 13:54, Jan Beulich wrote: On 11.09.2019 13:29, Juergen Gross wrote: On 11.09.19 13:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: Second, is xenfs really the best name here?  It is ambiguous with the still-essential (even though it really needs to disappear) Linux filesystem by the name xenfs. Yes, I'm

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Jan Beulich
On 11.09.2019 13:29, Juergen Gross wrote: > On 11.09.19 13:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> Second, is xenfs really the best name here?  It is ambiguous with the >> still-essential (even though it really needs to disappear) Linux >> filesystem by the name xenfs. > > Yes, I'm aware of that ambiguity. I'

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Juergen Gross
On 11.09.19 13:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 11/09/2019 07:19, Juergen Gross wrote: On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs. This is a first implementation of that idea

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 11/09/2019 07:19, Juergen Gross wrote: > On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen > hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store > similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs. > > This is a first implementation of that idea adding the basic > functionality

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Juergen Gross
On 11.09.19 11:24, Jan Beulich wrote: On 11.09.2019 08:19, Juergen Gross wrote: On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs. This is a first implementation of that idea a

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add hypervisor sysfs-like support

2019-09-11 Thread Jan Beulich
On 11.09.2019 08:19, Juergen Gross wrote: > On the 2019 Xen developer summit there was agreement that the Xen > hypervisor should gain support for a hierarchical name-value store > similar to the Linux kernel's sysfs. > > This is a first implementation of that idea adding the basic > functionality