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Because packets going through the egress from a bridge (where our bandwidth limiting takes place) have no information about which interface they came from, the QoS rules that we create instead use the source MAC address of the packets to make their decisions about which QDisc the packet should be in. One flaw in this is that when a guest changed the MAC address it used, packets from the guest would no longer be put into the correct QDisc, but would instead be put in an "unprivileged" class, resulting in the bandwidth "floor" (minimum guaranteed) being no longer honored. Now that libvirt has infrastructure to capture and respond to RX_FILTER_CHANGE events from qemu (sent whenever a guest interface modifies its MAC address, among other things), we can notice when a guest MAC address changes, and update the QoS rules accordingly, so that bandwidth floor is honored even after a guest MAC address change. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>