Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] hw/acpi: Implement the SRAT GI affinity structure

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 05:59:46 +0000
Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com> wrote:

> > One thing I forgot.
> >
> > Please add a test.  tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
> > + relevant table dumps.  
> 
> Here I need to add a test that creates a vfio-pci device and numa
> nodes and link using the acpi-generic-initiator object. One thing
> here is that the -device vfio-pci needs a host=<bdf> argument. I
> probably cannot provide the device bdf from my local setup. So
> I am not sure how can I add this test to tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c.
> FYI, the following is a sample args we use for the
> acpi-generic-initiator object.
> 
>        -numa node,nodeid=2
>        -device vfio-pci-nohotplug,bus=pcie.0,addr=04.0,rombar=0,id=dev0 \
>        -object acpi-generic-initiator,id=gi0,pci-dev=dev0,node=2 \
> 
> Moreover based on a quick grep, I don't see any other test that
> have -device vfio-pci argument.
> 
> Jonathan, Alex, do you know how we may add tests that is dependent
> on the vfio-pci device?
> 

As Jonathan notes, we've decoupled this from vfio-pci, the pci-dev= arg
can point to any PCI device.  For example, any emulated PCI NIC could
be a stand-in for the vfio-pci device used in practice.  Thanks,

Alex