On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:01:50AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Bharata B Rao wrote: >> >> But could there be client models where you are required to strictly >> adhere to the limit within the bandwidth and not provide more (by advancing >> the bandwidth period) in the presence of idle cycles ? >> > > That's the limit part. I'd like to be able to specify limits and > guarantees on the same host and for the same groups; I don't think that > works when you advance the bandwidth period. > > I think we need to treat guarantees as first-class goals, not something > derived from limits (in fact I think guarantees are more useful as they > can be used to provide SLAs). I agree that guarantees are important, but I am not sure about 1. specifying both limits and guarantees for groups and 2. not deriving guarantees from limits. Guarantees are met by some form of throttling or limiting and hence I think limiting should drive the guarantees. Regards, Bharata. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
