From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:13:41 -0500 Message-ID: <20080422151341.GM17938@us.ibm.com> References: <1208873728-10194-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Chris Wright , Ryan Harper , Avi Kivity To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1208873728-10194-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org * Anthony Liguori [2008-04-22 09:16]: > This patch changes virtio devices to be multi-function devices whenever > possible. This increases the number of virtio devices we can support now by > a factor of 8. > > With this patch, I've been able to launch a guest with either 220 disks or 220 > network adapters. Have you confirmed that the network devices show up? I was playing around with some of the limits last night and while it is easy to get QEMU to create the adapters, so far I've only had a guest see 29 pci nics (e1000). -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx (512) 838-9253 T/L: 678-9253 ryanh@us.ibm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone