Hi phil, It is used to generate the rxtx_cap in the network_info cache which is in turn used to generate qos params in xenapi in: ~/os/nova/nova/virt/xenapi/vif.py I don't believe it is used in the other drivers at all. tr3buchet or _cerberus_ might be able to add a bit more detail Vish On Jan 30, 2013, at 1:43 PM, "Day, Phil" <philip.day at hp.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Can anyone point me to where the rxtx factor of an instance type is currently used in the code please ? > > I was thinking about the use case of having instance types which are differentiated by their network bandwidth, and how that could be accommodated in a scheduler filter and passed down to the virt layer for cgroup configuration, and the rxtx factor seems to be the obvious starting point – but I was struggling to see how its already used. > > Has anyone else looked at this as an issue ? > > Cheers, > Phil > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130130/36bc5a5f/attachment.html>