Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:15 am Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:23:53PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > I applied 1-9 to my linux-next branch; and at least patch #10 needs a
> > respin,
>
> I still object to #2.  We should have the flexibility to have 'struct
> resource's that are not in this array in the pci_dev.  I would like to
> see the SR-IOV resources _not_ in this array (and indeed, I'd like to
> see PCI bridges keep their producer resources somewhere other than in
> this array).  I accept that there are still some problems with this, but
> patch #2 moves us further from being able to achieve this goal, not
> closer.

Yeah, I can see what you mean here...  but on the other hand it makes the 
existing code a bit clearer (no extra args), and really it doesn't push us 
*that* much further from non-pci_dev tied resources.  Any patches in that 
direction will just get a few lines bigger, that's all.

But I agree that eventually we may want to have non-pci_dev resource lists, 
especially if we start adding advanced host bridge drivers or something.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center