From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btx8K-0005rm-4h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:30:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btx8E-0005Hn-4F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:30:15 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32794) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btx8D-0005Fg-UH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 09:30:10 -0400 Message-ID: <1476192605.3672.13.camel@redhat.com> From: Andrea Bolognani Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:30:05 +0200 In-Reply-To: <781e71ff-b67d-ebf1-a51c-baba3edce1fd@redhat.com> References: <1472736127-18137-1-git-send-email-marcel@redhat.com> <6c9103e7-70ad-55c6-5533-d6d9bbaa39b4@redhat.com> <20161004145911.GA2155@redhat.com> <2ea37764-7787-0b1b-5abb-9f8ba12a7080@redhat.com> <2db6a14f-731d-422d-a928-a856360406fd@redhat.com> <02c5ce65-3941-7816-f533-c8d6bc85073e@redhat.com> <640684d2-9200-d7bd-fbb4-22c4200c8364@redhat.com> <1476097762.3672.1.camel@redhat.com> <781e71ff-b67d-ebf1-a51c-baba3edce1fd@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] docs: add PCIe devices placement guidelines List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Marcel Apfelbaum , Laine Stump , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Laszlo Ersek , "Daniel P. Berrange" , Peter Maydell , Drew Jones , mst@redhat.com, Alex Williamson , Gerd Hoffmann On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 17:15 +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > > > > 2) can you really only plug a pcie-root-port (ioh3420) > > > > into a pxb-pcie? Or will it accept anything that pcie.0 > > > > accepts? > > >=C2=A0 > > > It supports only PCI Express Root Ports. It does not > > > support Integrated Devices. > >=C2=A0 > > So no PCI Express Switch Upstream Ports? >=C2=A0 > The switch upstream ports can only be plugged into PCIe Root Ports. > There is an error in the RFC showing otherwise, it is already > corrected in V1, not yet upstream. I was pretty sure that was the case, but I wanted to double-check just to be on the safe side ;) > > What about DMI-to-PCI Bridges? >=C2=A0 > Yes, the dmi-to-pci bridge can be plugged into the pxb-pcie, I'll > be sure to emphasize it. Cool. I would have been very surprised if that would have not been the case, considering how we need to use multiple pxb-pcie to link PCI devices to specific NUMA nodes. --=C2=A0 Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization