From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: armbru@redhat.com, paul@codesourcery.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 7/7] [RFC] pci bus: preliminary for multi pci bus support.
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:51:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A24E7F7.9040604@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090602074600.GG9176%yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Isaku Yamahata wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:13:19AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Isaku Yamahata wrote:
>>
>>> This patch is preliminary for multi pci bus support to
>>> add -pci option.
>>>
>>>
>> What is the motivation for this work?
>>
>
> -pci might be too generic. -pci_bridge or something else might be
> better. I think, eventually they would be replaced with config file work.
> So this option isn't so important.
>
> The short term motivation is 128+ pci slot support.
> I know Markus has tried on kvm before and was rejected because
> of scalability. As he also wants it, I'm willing to collaborate with him.
>
Thanks for the explanation.
> The long term motivation is to support MMCFG and PCIe port emulator,
> then eventually PCIe native direct attach support including
> PCIe native functionality like AER.
> This requires more newer chipset emulation than piix and more.
>
Yes, this is definitely interesting.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 6:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] pci bridge clean up and multiple pci bus support v2 Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] vmware_vga: clean up Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-10 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] qemu: make default_write_config use mask table Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] pci: pci_default_config_write() clean up Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 10:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-03 2:31 ` Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-03 7:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-03 12:25 ` Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-05 10:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-10 15:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-15 9:12 ` Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-15 10:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] pci/config: convert pci configuration space handler to use callback Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-10 15:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] pci: PCIBus clean up Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] pci/brdige qdevfy Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] [RFC] pci bus: preliminary for multi pci bus support Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 7:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-06-02 7:46 ` Isaku Yamahata
2009-06-02 8:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-02 13:03 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-06-02 12:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
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