On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 01:36:02PM +0800, Li Wei wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Thanks for your comment!
>
> On 08/04/2014 04:39 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 11:38:41AM +0800, Li Wei wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 07/22/2014 03:25 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Did anything come of this discussion, and/or is someone working on this?
> >>
> >> I am working on an API to query block stats in a bulk style and proposed an
> >> API as follow:
> >>
> >> virDomainBlockStatsBulkFlags(virDomainPtr dom,
> >> virTypedParameterPtr params,
> >> int nparams,
> >> int ndisks,
> >> unsigned int flags)
> >>
> >> @dom: pointer to domain object
> >> @params: an array of typed param to be populated with block stats
> >> @nparams: how many params used for each block device
> >> @ndisks: how many block devices to query
> >> @flags: flags to filter block devices (not used for now)
> >>
> >> Returns -1 in case of error, 0 in case of success.
> >> with params == NULL, nparams == -1, ndisks == 1, return number of params for each block device.
> >> with params == NULL, nparams == -1, ndisks == -1, return number of disks in the domain.
> >>
> >> A typical usage of this API should be:
> >> nparams = virDomainBlockStatsBulkFlags(dom, NULL, -1, 1, 0);
> >> ndisks = virDomainBlockStatsBulkFlags(dom, NULL, -1, -1, 0);
> >>
> >> params = VIR_ALLOC_N(params, nparams * ndisks);
> >>
> >> ret = virDomainBlockStatsBulkFlags(dom, params, nparams, ndisks, 0);
> >>
> >> ... do something with params
> >>
> >> VIR_FREE(params);
> >>
> >> With this bulk API, virt-top can updates in a short interval for a domain with a lot of disks.
> >> Any comments?
> >
> > I think this works OK for the case where you have 1 domains with
> > lots of disks.
> >
> > However if you have a large number of domains each with 1 or 2
> > disks I think you would have the same problem as currently.
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> >
> > Is it possible to design an API that can work across all domains
> > in a single call?
>
> How about the following API:
>
> int virConnectGetAllBlockStats(virConnectPtr conn,
> virDomainPtr domain,
> virDomainBlockBulkStatsPtr *stats,
> unsigned int flags);
> @conn: pointer to libvirt connection
> @domain: pointer to the domain to be queried, NULL for all domains
> @stats: array of virDomainBlockBulkStats struct(see below) to be populated
> @flags: filter flags
> Return the number of virDomainBlockBulkStats populated.
>
> where virDomainBlockBulkStats defined as:
>
> struct _virDomainBlockBulkStats {
> virDomainPtr domain; /* domain the block stats belongs to */
> virTypedParameterPtr params; /* params to store block stats */
> unsigned int nparams; /* how many params used for each block stats */
> unsigned int ndisks; /* how many block stats in this domain */
> };
Works for me.
Please CC me on any patches so I can review them more easily for you.
Rich.
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