Re: [libvirt] ideas on virDomainListBlockStats for allocation numbers

On 21/11/14 23:03 -0700, Eric Blake wrote:

> The problem is that once we have a domain with more than one <disk>, and > where one or all disks have more than one <backingStore>, then how > should virDomainListBlockStats represent that? > > One idea I have is to just expose a block.count equal to the total > number of devices I'm about to report on, where the array can be larger > than the number of disks, and using the name field to correlate back to > dumpxml layout: I prefer this approach as well. However, I don't really like having to parse the name to pluck the index from between the []. Could this just be exposed as a first order stat, ie: block.count=3 block.0.name=vda block.0.backing_index=0 ... block.1.name=vda block.1.backing_index=1 ... block.2.name=vdb block.2.backing_index=0