The burst attribute for bandwidth specifies how much bytes can be
transmitted in a single burst. Therefore, the unit is in
multiples of 1024 (thus kibibytes) not SI-like 1000. It has
always been like that.
The 'tc' output is still confusing though, for instance:
# tc class add dev $DEV parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 1000kbps burst 2097152
# tc class show dev vnet2
class htb 1:1 root rate 8Mbit ceil 8Mbit burst 2Mb cburst 1600b
Please note that 2097152 = 2*1024*1024. Even the man page is
confusing. From tc(8):
kb or k Kilobytes
mb or m Megabytes
But I guess this is because 'tc' predates IEC standardisation of
binary multiples and thus can't change without breaking scripts
parsing its output.
And while at it, adjust _virNetDevBandwidthRate struct member
description, to make it obvious which members use SI/IEC units.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>
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