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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	Julia Suvorova <jsuvorov@redhat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: KVM_MEM_PCI_HOLE memory
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:21:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200921172114.GA24289@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200918083134-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 08:34:37AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:00:31AM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 07:32:23AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > I suspect microvms will need pci eventually. I would much rather KVM
> > > had an exit-less discovery mechanism in place by then because
> > > learning from history if it doesn't they will do some kind of
> > > hack on the kernel command line, and everyone will be stuck
> > > supporting that for years ...
> > 
> > Is it not an option for the VMM to "accurately" enumerate the number of buses?
> > E.g. if the VMM has devices on only bus 0, then enumerate that there is one
> > bus so that the guest doesn't try and probe devices that can't possibly exist.
> > Or is that completely non-sensical and/or violate PCIe spec?
> 
> 
> There is some tension here, in that one way to make guest boot faster
> is to defer hotplug of devices until after it booted.

Sorry, I didn't follow that, probably because my PCI knowledge is lacking.
What does device hotplug have to do with the number of buses enumerated to
the guest?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-21 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-07 14:12 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: KVM_MEM_PCI_HOLE memory Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-08-07 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: move kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot() out of try_async_pf() Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-08-14  1:40   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-01 14:15     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-04  3:47       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-08-07 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: x86: introduce KVM_MEM_PCI_HOLE memory Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-08-14  2:31   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-08-14 14:30     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-08-17 16:32       ` Sean Christopherson
2020-08-21  1:46         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-08-22  3:19           ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-01 14:39     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-03  9:35       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-08-07 14:12 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: selftests: add KVM_MEM_PCI_HOLE test Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-08-25 21:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: x86: KVM_MEM_PCI_HOLE memory Peter Xu
2020-09-01 14:43   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-01 20:00     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-02  8:59       ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-04  6:12         ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-04  7:29           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-09-04 16:00             ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-07  8:37               ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-09-07 11:32                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-11 17:00                   ` Sean Christopherson
2020-09-18 12:34                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-21 17:21                       ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-09-07 10:52             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-18  9:33               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-09-07 10:54           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-09-18  8:49           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-09-04  7:20   ` Gerd Hoffmann

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