On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:49:58PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > That's quite exact. I mean the word 'guessing'. We can't really provide > reliable way of dealing with what you're suggesting (unless we cut the > limit really small) nor we can guarantee atomicity. Therefore I think it > would be a waste of time to work on this. Yes, it can be done, but the > benefits are pretty small IMO. Why is atomicity a problem? Just structure the libvirtd messages so that you have: COLLECT_THE_STATS - saves the stats into an internal buffer in libvirtd and returns a handle and a number of stat items RETURN_THE_STATS - returns partial subset of previously collected stats, called multiple times to transfer the data back to libvirt FREE_THE_STATS - free the internal buffer Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list