From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:46:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <480DFA3B.2000401@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480DF70D.8010609@qumranet.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Does this play well with hotplug? Perhaps we need to allocate a new
> device on hotplug.
>
Probably not. I imagine you can only hotplug devices, not individual
functions?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> (certainly if we have a device with one function, which then gets
> converted to a multifunction device)
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-22 14:15 [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 14:32 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 14:46 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-04-22 14:51 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 15:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 16:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 16:27 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 16:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 17:26 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 18:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-23 6:42 ` Chris Wright
2008-04-22 19:26 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-04-22 19:00 ` Ian Kirk
2008-04-23 6:32 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-23 20:57 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 15:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-22 19:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-23 6:35 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 15:12 ` Luca Tettamanti
2008-04-22 15:13 ` Ryan Harper
2008-04-22 15:16 ` Anthony Liguori
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