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Re: [Xen-devel] Trying to get HyperSCSI and Xen to work... ;-)

To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Trying to get HyperSCSI and Xen to work... ;-)
From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:16:19 +0100
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> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 12:25:15AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> > A lot of the network control code (e.g., routing of packets) isn't
> > great. We want to rework it at some point in the near future -- adding
> > more flexible packet forwarding, filtering and rewriting. The code has
> > evolved into its current form rather than being cleanly designed :-(
> 
> Are there any plans to add rate limiting of network packets per domain
> (in and out)?  This seemed to be the only feature missing from Xen for
> use in a hostile shared hosting environment.  I read it has a fair
> scheduler for packet traffic which is great.  Being able to put a cap
> on the absolute traffic levels would be even better.

Yes, several people are interested in implementing more versatile I/O
and CPU scheduler. This should see some progress in the near future.

I think ading simple rate-limiting to the current network scheduler
would not be much work.

 -- Keir


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