From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gerd Hoffmann Subject: Re: [SeaBIOS] Graphics card pass-through working with two pass pci-initialization Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:30:42 +0200 Message-ID: <4DEC7412.80506@redhat.com> References: <4DDCF9ED.5050208@redhat.com> <4DDDDA8D.6080807@web.de> <4DDDF62C.2010603@redhat.com> <4DDF3768.5010002@web.de> <4DDF867A.9040700@siemens.com> <4DDFFE1E.1060900@web.de> <4DE3486F.10502@redhat.com> <20110531022922.GB10673@valinux.co.jp> <4DE5EA84.7040400@redhat.com> <20110601142029.GC3554@valinux.co.jp> <20110601223405.GB18369@morn.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Isaku Yamahata , Jan Kiszka , Alex Williamson , seabios@seabios.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Kevin O'Connor" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:65139 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108Ab1FFGbL (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 02:31:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110601223405.GB18369@morn.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, > As Jan points out though, is a dynamic PCI region really needed? > Those that need a large PCI region are also likely to need a large > amount of memory. Maybe the space for PCI should just be increased. Just changing it will not work as it will break live migration. I think one option is to keep the piix-based pc as-is, with the address space above 0xe0000000 being available for PCI, and make the room larger for the upcoming q35-based pc, say starting at 0xc0000000. That will give almost 1G address space. 256 MB are used by pci mmconfig though. The other option is to make it configurable, which in turn requires a dynamic PCI region. cheers, Gerd