Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC]QEMU disk I/O limits

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:09:23PM +0800, Zhi Yong Wu wrote:

[..]
>     3.) How the users enable and play with it
>     QEMU -drive option will be extended so that disk I/O limits can be 
> specified on its command line, such as -drive [iops=xxx,][throughput=xxx] or 
> -drive [iops_rd=xxx,][iops_wr=xxx,][throughput=xxx] etc. When this argument 
> is specified, it means that "disk I/O limits" feature is enabled for this 
> drive disk.

How does throughput interface look like? is it bytes per second or something
else?

Do we have read and write variants for throughput as we have for iops.

if you have bytes interface(as kenrel does), then "bps_rd" and "bps_wr"
might be good names too for thoughput interface.

Thanks
Vivek