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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	yamahata@valinux.co.jp, blauwirbel@gmail.com
Subject: Re: About hotplug multifunction
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:56:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110912105607.GA12849@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110912102148.GA12332@amt.cnet>

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:21:48AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > We could, for example, keep a stub function 0 around.
> 
> I suppose the guest will remove all functions of a device once you
> attempt to hot-unplug a function.
> 
> What is the problem with adding more PCI buses, instead of multifunction
> ?

The advantage is that its not only possible to use virtio devices, but any
kind of PCI device.


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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, blauwirbel@gmail.com,
	yamahata@valinux.co.jp,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] About hotplug multifunction
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:56:07 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110912105607.GA12849@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110912102148.GA12332@amt.cnet>

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 07:21:48AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > We could, for example, keep a stub function 0 around.
> 
> I suppose the guest will remove all functions of a device once you
> attempt to hot-unplug a function.
> 
> What is the problem with adding more PCI buses, instead of multifunction
> ?

The advantage is that its not only possible to use virtio devices, but any
kind of PCI device.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-12 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1749303074.590739.1315551830460.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
2011-09-09  7:08 ` About hotplug multifunction Amos Kong
2011-09-09  7:08   ` [Qemu-devel] " Amos Kong
2011-09-09  7:32   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-09  7:32     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-09 17:05     ` Alex Williamson
2011-09-09 17:05       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2011-09-09 18:34       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-09 18:34         ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-11  9:23         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-11  9:23           ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-11 15:01           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-11 15:01             ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-11 18:51             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-11 18:51               ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-12 10:21               ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-12 10:21                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-12 10:56                 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2011-09-12 10:56                   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-12 12:24                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-12 12:24                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-13 12:23                     ` Amos Kong
2011-09-13 12:23                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Amos Kong
2011-09-13 14:24                       ` Amos Kong
2011-09-13 14:24                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Amos Kong
2011-09-09 17:43   ` Isaku Yamahata
2011-09-09 17:43     ` [Qemu-devel] " Isaku Yamahata
2011-09-11  9:05     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-11  9:05       ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-13  5:57       ` Isaku Yamahata
2011-09-13  5:57         ` [Qemu-devel] " Isaku Yamahata
2011-09-13  6:52         ` Gleb Natapov
2011-09-13  6:52           ` Gleb Natapov
2011-09-13  7:00           ` Isaku Yamahata
2011-09-13  7:00             ` Isaku Yamahata
2011-09-13 10:00           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-13 10:00             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-13 10:05           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-13 10:05             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-13 10:05             ` Gleb Natapov
2011-09-13 10:05               ` Gleb Natapov
2011-11-23  9:06   ` Amos Kong
2011-11-23  9:06     ` [Qemu-devel] " Amos Kong

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