Dor Laor wrote:
Libvirt does not support r2d. I hope it won't start to support it.
It supports mips, sparc, and ppc machines now. I don't see why it
wouldn't support r2d. For ppcemb, I expect this same problem to occur.
This sort of restriction is going to be common with embedded boards.
We can have default values for these types of devices or something
like pci_addr=auto.
Why wouldn't libvirt always use pci_addr=auto? If the only argument for
having libvirt do pci slot allocation is error messages, can't we find a
nice way to allow libvirt to create friendly error messages when QEMU fails?
If you let QEMU allocate which PCI slot a device goes in, we can hide
this detail from libvirt. If you have libvirt do PCI slot allocation
by default, it has to know about this restriction in the r2d board
unless you have a clever way to express this sort of information.
Once QEMU has allocated a device to a slot, libvirt can do a good job
maintaining that relationship.
The end user should have a mechanism to control device slot
positioning. For example, if you have several pci devices, some
get high rate of interrupts and some not, if you want to optimize you
guest you should isolate the high rate 'interesting' devices.
This is something the user will need to do. I agree that the default
behavior might be 'auto'
I'm not at all arguing against pci_addr. I'm arguing about how libvirt
should use it with respect to the "genesis" use-case where libvirt has
no specific reason to choose one PCI slot over another. In that case,
I'm merely advocating that we want to let QEMU make the decision.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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