On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > This patch series add support for setting traffic shaping and policing > on both domain's interface and network's virtual bridge. Basically, > this is done via 'tc' from iproute2 package. For shaping is HTB used, > for policing we need u32 match selector. Both should be available in > RHEL-6 kernel. > > How this works: > On an virtual interface which has limits defined a root qdisc are replaced. > Ingress root for outbound traffic shaping and egress for inbound. > Basically, in inbound traffic policing is applied, on outbound shaping. Okay, this should work http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan/horman OpenVSwitch offers both egress and ingress and based on Horman feedback in slides it wasn't a good idea to use ingress (i.e. traffic shaping) for inbound but egress was fine (see slides from 18) > New qdiscs are set to limit the traffic to rate set in XML. For shaping > it is possible to set the size of buffer. Accepted values for rate, peak > and burst have same format as 'tc' command and are documented. > > Supported devices are VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_NETWORK, VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_BRIDGE > and VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_DIRECT. > > diff to v1: > -rebase to current HEAD > -add support for macvtap devices Okay, individual review separately, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list