[libvirt] [PATCH v2] lib: Add note that bulk stats API queries may overrun RPC buffers

[Peter Krempa]

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:49:58 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 05/24/2017 12:32 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:29:52PM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 17:19:53 +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 05:07:40PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:

[...]

> >> Also compared to a full fragmentation of the returned data, this would
> >> result into a worst-case-scenario memory usage of MAX_SIZE *
> >> NVMS_QUERIED_IN_ORIGINAL_CALL, when compared to an unbounded memory use
> >> of the full fragmentation approach.
> > 
> > If I get what you are saying, then the same would happen if the mgmt app
> > (or client) implemented it themselves.  We would basically just provide
> > the guessing logic.
> 
> That's quite exact. I mean the word 'guessing'. We can't really provide
> reliable way of dealing with what you're suggesting (unless we cut the
> limit really small) nor we can guarantee atomicity. Therefore I think it
> would be a waste of time to work on this. Yes, it can be done, but the
> benefits are pretty small IMO.

Yes, I agree. Therefore I opted to add the notice for this API.
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