Re: [Xen-devel] 4.2 TODO List

[Mathieu Gagnà <mgagne@xxxxxxxx>]

On 2/28/12 10:21 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 15:08 +0000, Mathieu Gagnà 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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Mathieu

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