Re: Unable to create more than 1 guest virtio-net device using vhost-net backend

Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-21T11:34:43Z

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:29:31PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/21/2010 12:15 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>> Nothing easy that I can see. Each device needs 2 of these. Avi, Gleb,
>>>> any objections to increasing the limit to say 16? That would give us
>>>> 5 more devices to the limit of 6 per guest.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Increase it to 200, then.
>>>
>> OK. I think we'll also need a smarter allocator
>> than bus->dev_count++ than we now have. Right?
>>
>
> No, why?

We'll run into problems if devices are created/removed in random order,
won't we?

> Eventually we'll want faster scanning than the linear search we employ
> now, though.

Yes I suspect with 200 entries we will :). Let's just make it 16 for
now?

>>> Is the limit visible to userspace? If not, we need to expose it.
>>>
>> I don't think it's visible: it seems to be used in a single
>> place in kvm. Let's add an ioctl? Note that qemu doesn't
>> need it now ...
>>
>
> We usually expose limits via KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION(KVM_CAP_BLAH). We can
> expose it via KVM_CAP_IOEVENTFD (and need to reserve iodev entries for
> those).
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function