Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-rng: Bump up quota value only when guest requests entropy

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 03:04:00PM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> @@ -196,13 +201,9 @@ static void virtio_rng_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, 
> Error **errp)
>  
>      vrng->vq = virtio_add_queue(vdev, 8, handle_input);
>      vrng->quota_remaining = vrng->conf.max_bytes;
> -
>      vrng->rate_limit_timer = timer_new_ms(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL,
>                                                 check_rate_limit, vrng);

BTW I'm not sure QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL is right here.
We are trying to limit the rate at host.
Does it matter that guest is not running?

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