[libvirt] [PATCHv2 5/5] network: add connections counter to networks

[Laine Stump]

On 08/14/2012 11:55 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/14/2012 01:10 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
>> Just as each physical device used by a network has a connections
>> counter, now each network has a connections counter which is
>> incremented once for each guest interface that connects using this
>> network.
>>
>> The count is output in the live network XML, like this:
>>
>>    <network connections='20'>
>>    ...
>>    </network>
>>
>> It is read-only, and for informational purposes only - it isn't used
>> internally anywhere by libvirt.
>> ---
>>  src/conf/network_conf.c     |  6 +++++-
>>  src/conf/network_conf.h     |  1 +
>>  src/network/bridge_driver.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>  3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> Still, I can't help but wonder if someone will try to feed the live
> dumpxml output back into libvirt to define a new network config, and
> trigger an rng failure as a result - you need to touch
> docs/schemas/network.rng.  I also think this is missing documentation -
> it may be an output-only parameter, but is worth mentioning in
> docs/formatnetwork.html.in.

Correct on both counts. You've mostly trained me well wrt rng and docs,
but sometimes I forget :-)

I'll resubmit this last patch, but push them all at once.