Re: [PATCH v10 3/5] KVM: stats: Add documentation for binary statistics interface

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 6:34 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 01:19:50PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 17/06/21 08:07, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > The statistics data itself could be read out by userspace telemetry
> > > > periodically without any extra parsing or setup effort.
> > > Do you have a pointer to userspace code that can do such a thing that
> > > others can use?  We do not like adding apis to the kernel without at
> > > least seeing the user of those apis, especially for complex things like
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Ideally you would include some library code in the kernel tree itself
> > > that everyone can use for this for their own programs.  You have
> > > provided a test which is great, but how do we know it works for "real"
> > > usages?
> >
> > I am pretty sure that Google is using this internally, but we are also going
> > to work on QEMU and Libvirt support for this.
>
> We need an "external user" for something as complex as this to be able
> to see if it actually works or not.  Otherwise we have to just guess :(
We have plans to add some library code in kernel selftests and also some
simple tools to let everyone get a feeling of the new API.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Thanks,
Jing



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