linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] metricfs metric file system and examples

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Message-ID: <20200810112025.05825daf@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:20:25 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Jonathan Adams <jwadams@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] metricfs metric file system and examples

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 09:59:34 -0600 David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/7/20 8:06 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > So i personally don't think netdev statistics is a good idea, i doubt
> > it scales.  
> 
> +1

+1

Please stop using networking as the example for this.

We don't want file interfaces for stats, and we already made that very
clear last time.