[libvirt] limit pps via bandwidth

[Michal Privoznik]

On 05/15/2017 09:31 PM, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hi. I have a problem that some vps generate very big pps (500000). I
> want to limit it for some reasonable value. iptables does not support
> by default limit by pps more that 10000, i can use nft... but
> Why not use tc for this ?
> http://www.lartc.org/manpages/tc-pbfifo.html
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-sfb.8.html
> 
> As i understand firstly we can limit by pps and secondly via bandwidth...
> What do you think?
> 

That's exactly what <bandwidth/> is for. Although, we don't support pps
based limiting rather than bps based rate limiting, but I believe the
latter has wider usage range.

Michal