From 38dbd48b247ebe05bdc6ef52ccdc60cc21274877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=A1n=20Tomko?= Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:03:47 +0200 Subject: virtio-balloon: return empty data when no stats are available MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If the guest hasn't updated the stats yet, instead of returning an error, return '-1' for the stats and '0' as 'last-update'. This lets applications ignore this without parsing the error message. Related libvirt patch and discussion: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-May/msg00460.html Tested against current upstream libvirt - stat reporting works and it no longer logs errors when the stats are queried on domain startup. (Note: libvirt doesn't use the last-update field for anything yet) Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Reviewed-by: Eric Blake --- docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt index f74612f468..edff5f22a8 100644 --- a/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt +++ b/docs/virtio-balloon-stats.txt @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ which will return a dictionary containing: o A key named last-update, which contains the last stats update timestamp in seconds. Since this timestamp is generated by the host, - a buggy guest can't influence its value + a buggy guest can't influence its value. The value is 0 if the guest + has not updated the stats (yet). It's also important to note the following: @@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ It's also important to note the following: - Polling can be enabled even if the guest doesn't have stats support or the balloon driver wasn't loaded in the guest. If this is the case - and stats are queried, an error will be returned + and stats are queried, last-update will be 0. - The polling timer is only re-armed when the guest responds to the statistics request. This means that if a (buggy) guest doesn't ever -- cgit v1.2.3