[openstack-dev] [Nova] Remove ratelimits from nova v3 api

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 25 18:42:21 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:38 AM, David Hill <david.hill at ubisoft.com> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
>    Is removing the ratelimiting code part of the roadmap?  I fear that if
> it's removed now, it may have to be re-implemented in the future as the
> cloud deployments become more mainstream ... Without ratelimit, some evil
> users could DOS Openstack !
>

The issue is that the existing ratelimit code doesn't actually work as
expected.  For more details see:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34774/3/nova/api/openstack/compute/limits.py
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34821/3


Dave
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Alex Xu [xuhj at linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: November 25, 2013 03:53
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Remove ratelimits from nova v3 api
>
> Hi, guys,
>
> Looks like ratelimits is not really useful. The reason already pointed out
> by this patch:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/34821/ , Thanks Joe for point it out.
>
> So v3 API is a chance to cleanup those stuff. If there isn't anyone object
> it. I will send patch
> to get ride of ratelimits code for v3 API.
>
> Thanks
> Alex
>
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