From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45606) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1eMG-0004QB-EK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:18:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1eME-0006GJ-Vg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:18:36 -0400 Received: from nodalink.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.105.220]:47572 helo=paradis.irqsave.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V1eME-0006G4-NW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:18:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:20:20 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Canet Message-ID: <20130723152020.GG5002@irqsave.net> References: <1374582067-9063-1-git-send-email-benoit@irqsave.net> <1374582067-9063-3-git-send-email-benoit@irqsave.net> <20130723145906.GB14190@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130723145906.GB14190@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 for-1.6 2/5] block: Modify the throttling code to implement the leaky bucket algorithm. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Hajnoczi Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com > I don't fully understand the patch yet but: The patch is a variant of the following algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_bucket Best regards Beno=EEt