On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:25:12PM -0600, Jason King wrote: > I am curious if there is any existing case, or any documentation that > can be referenced that provides better guidance about kstats, or if > not, would it be appropriate to ask ARC to provide some guidance with > this case. I know it would help me greatly in a project I'd like to > bring before ARC at some point, and would probably help others in the > future as well. > > I've been told that use of _any_ kstats that haven't been classified > as !private is verboten (at least in the 'don't bother trying to get > it integrated sense -- it can always be published external to > opensolaris.org), even if the consumer was in the _same_ > consolidation. > > I was also told that currently the only kstats that are !private are a > number of network interface (and possibly tcp/ip) related kstats. > This case is clearly using more than those, and that is where I'd like > to know more about when they can and can't be used.
Ideally the kstats interfaces should include a stability label for each kstat. And then for each kstat we'd have to decide whether it's stable or not. Alternatively, use SNMP :) Nico --
