Allow limiting IO operation size (KVM)
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Description
##### ISSUE TYPE
* Improvement Request
##### COMPONENT NAME
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KVM hypervisor
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##### CLOUDSTACK VERSION
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4.18 or latest
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##### SUMMARY
The [qemu documentation](https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/throttle.txt#L142) explains why this is important:
> When applying IOPS limits all I/O operations are treated equally
regardless of their size. This means that the user can take advantage
of this in order to circumvent the limits and submit one huge I/O
request instead of several smaller ones.
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> QEMU provides a setting called throttling.iops-size to prevent this
from happening. This setting specifies the size (in bytes) of an I/O
request for accounting purposes. Larger requests will be counted
proportionally to this size.
In libvirt this option is called `size_iops_sec` inside the `` section ([ref](https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html)).
Other big clouds such as AWS also use this mechanism to fairly allocate IOPS.
##### STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Checking the CloudStack code shows that this option is currently not supported:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/blob/1411da1a22bc6aa26634f3038475e3d5fbbcd6bb/plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtVMDef.java#L1173-L1207
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Piste de recherche
Commencez dans plugins/hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/resource/LibvirtVMDef.java autour des lignes 1173-1207, où l'issue indique que les options KVM IO sont définies. Consultez la documentation liée sur la limitation de QEMU et la référence de libvirt pour size_iops_sec, puis rendez l'option disponible dans la configuration KVM de CloudStack et vérifiez que le paramètre généré utilise la taille IO demandée pour la comptabilisation.
Rédigé par le modèle d'indexation à partir du texte de l'issue.
Évaluation
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- java
- Domaine
- cloud, infrastructure
- Type d'issue
- Fonctionnalité
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- Temps estimé
- 1-2 jours
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- Clarté
- Plutôt claire
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