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From: "Mathieu Gagné" <mgagne@iweb.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3 of 4] xl: add support for vif rate limiting
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:40:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F68CF26.1070701@iweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332242786.9223.215.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>

On 3/20/12 7:26 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:16 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>
>> wouldn't it make sense to just use a uint64_t for
>> rate_bytes_per_interval and rate_interval_usecs?
>
> It needn't be a barrier to this but FWIW Linux parses these into
> "unsigned long", but it does at least appear to do proper overflow
> checking.

Xend/xm defaults to unlimited when bytes_per_interval or interval_usecs 
overflows a 32bit unsigned long.

Internally, xen-netback will parse those values into "unsigned long" 
which would otherwise overflow/wrap if we used uint64_t:

http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.3/drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h#L86

-- 
Mathieu

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-20 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-20  1:28 [PATCH 0 of 4] xl: add support for vif rate limiting Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-20  1:28 ` [PATCH 1 of 4] xl: cleanup indentation Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-20 10:58   ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 11:07   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-03-20  1:28 ` [PATCH 2 of 4] xl: xl network-attach -N (dry run) option Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-20 10:58   ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 11:09   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-03-20  1:28 ` [PATCH 3 of 4] xl: add support for vif rate limiting Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-20 11:16   ` Stefano Stabellini
2012-03-20 11:26     ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 18:40       ` Mathieu Gagné [this message]
2012-03-21 10:23         ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 11:21   ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 17:58     ` Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-21 10:04       ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 18:25     ` Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-21 10:12       ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20  1:28 ` [PATCH 4 of 4] xl: add "check-xl-vif-parse" test script Mathieu Gagné
2012-03-20 11:29   ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-20 11:30 ` [PATCH 0 of 4] xl: add support for vif rate limiting Ian Campbell

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