Re: kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings

Avi Kivity
2011-08-22T13:17:41Z

On 08/22/2011 04:15 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:06:07AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 08/22/2011 03:55 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
>
> > > Well, I don't think its really meaningless, but we need some way to
> > > communicate the information about device groups to userspace.
> >
> > I mean the contents of the group descriptor. There are enough 42s in
> > the kernel, it's better if we can replace a synthetic number with
> > something meaningful.
>
> If we only look at PCI than a Segment:Bus:Dev.Fn Number would be
> sufficient, of course. But the idea was to make it generic enough so
> that it works with !PCI too.
>

We could make it an arch defined string instead of a symlink. So it
doesn't return 42, rather something that can be used by the admin to
figure out what the problem was.

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