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

On Fri 2020-08-07 14:29:09, Jonathan Adams wrote:

[resending to widen the CC lists per rdunlap@infradead.org's suggestion
original posting to lkml here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/5/1009]

To try to restart the discussion of kernel statistics started by the
statsfs patchsets (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/26/332), I wanted
to share the following set of patches which are Google's 'metricfs'
implementation and some example uses.  Google has been using metricfs
internally since 2012 as a way to export various statistics to our
telemetry systems (similar to OpenTelemetry), and we have over 200
statistics exported on a typical machine.

These patches have been cleaned up and modernized v.s. the versions
in production; I've included notes under the fold in the patches.
They're based on v5.8-rc6.

The statistics live under debugfs, in a tree rooted at:

	/sys/kernel/debug/metricfs

Is debugfs right place for this? It looks like something where people
would expect compatibility guarantees...

								Pavel

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