From: "Mathieu Gagné" <mgagne@iweb.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: 4.2 TODO List
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:47:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4CF71F.1000204@iweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330442470.31269.187.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
On 2/28/12 10:21 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 15:08 +0000, Mathieu Gagné wrote:
>>
>> Will there be support for rate limiting for vif as there is in xm/xend?
>>
>> The help for the command "network-attach" shows support for "rate".
>> Unfortunately, an error occurs when using the "rate" parameter:
>> "the rate parameter for vifs is currently not supported"
>
> I think this ought to be fixed before 4.2.
>
> It should be a fairly simple matter to plumb the parameter through to
> the underlying xenstore key. If you feel up to creating a patch I'd be
> happy to give some guidance.
>
Someone already proposed [1] a patch which accept rate in the form
"kb_per_sec,timeslice_usec". However it got rejected [1] because xm/xend
accepts this syntax (1Mb/s@1ms) instead and backward compatibility
should be preserved.
What should be the syntax for this parameter?
[1] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-03/msg01963.html
[2] http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-03/msg01978.html
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 12:50 4.2 TODO List Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 13:59 ` George Dunlap
2012-02-28 14:56 ` Roger Pau Monné
2012-02-28 15:39 ` Fantu
2012-03-12 11:20 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 15:08 ` Mathieu Gagné
2012-02-28 15:21 ` Ian Campbell
2012-02-28 15:47 ` Mathieu Gagné [this message]
2012-02-28 15:55 ` Ian Campbell
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