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Entity list truncation by drivers
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Keystone supports the ability for a deployment to restrict the number of
entries returned from list operations, typically to prevent poorly
formed searches (e.g. without sufficient filters) from becoming a performance
issue.

These limits are set in the configuration file, either for a specific driver or
across all drivers. A global ``list_limit`` set in ``[DEFAULT]`` section of
keystone is considered in case no limit is set for specific driver. These
limits are read at the Manager level and passed into individual drivers as part
of the Hints list object. A driver should try and honor any such limit if possible,
but if it is unable to do so then it may ignore it (and the truncation of the
returned list of entities will happen at the API level by ``wrap_collection`` method).