There are two csets from xen-3.1-testing.hg that add blktap info gathering to xenstat (xm top). 15155 - xenstat (xm top) gather information for blktap devices 15156 - xenstat (xm top) print information for blktap devices The changes have been looked over and recommended by at least one engineer for inclusion in RHEL 5.2.
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I guess if these csets are easy to add it's ok, but shouldn't we be encouraging them to use libvirt / virt-top?
This was from the initial 3.1.2 patch review. If no one wants it in, I'll close this.