Re: kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings

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On 08/22/2011 03:36 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:51:35AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 08/22/2011 01:46 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>  >  That does not work. The bridge in question may not even be visible as a
>  >  PCI device, so you can't link to it. This is the case on a few PCIe
>  >  cards which only have a PCIx chip and a PCIe-2-PCIx bridge to implement
>  >  the PCIe interface (yes, I have seen those cards).
>
>  How does the kernel detect that devices behind the invisible bridge must
>  be assigned as a unit?

On the AMD IOMMU side this information is stored in the IVRS ACPI table.
Not sure about the VT-d side, though.


I see.  There is no sysfs node representing it?

I'd rather not add another meaningless identifier.

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