From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: "Mathieu Gagné" <mgagne@iweb.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: 4.2 TODO List
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:55:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330444514.4270.2.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4CF71F.1000204@iweb.com>
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 15:47 +0000, Mathieu Gagné wrote:
> 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?
It should be the xend syntax unless whoever implements itcan make a
convincing argument why some other syntax is "better enough" to justify
breaking backwards conmpat.
>
> [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
2012-02-28 15:55 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
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