Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758036AbXK0J1d (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:27:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753475AbXK0J1X (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:27:23 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:50220 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751979AbXK0J1W convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:27:22 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio PCI device Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:25:59 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) References: <11944899922822-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <474B1BF3.20901@us.ibm.com> <474BDD28.7050801@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <474BDD28.7050801@qumranet.com> X-Face: I@=L^?./?$U,EK.)V[4*>`zSqm0>65YtkOe>TFD'!aw?7OVv#~5xd\s,[~w]-J!)|%=]>=?iso-8859-1?q?+=0A=09=7EohchhkRGW=3F=7C6=5FqTmkd=5Ft=3FLZC=23Q-=60=2E=60?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Y=2Ea=5E3zb?=) =?iso-8859-1?q?+U-JVN=5DWT=25cw=23=5BYo0=267C=26bL12wWGlZi=0A=09=7EJ=3B=5C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?wg=3B3zRnz?=,J"CT_)=\H'1/{?SR7GDu?WIopm.HaBG=QYj"NZD_[zrM\Gip^U Cc: Anthony Liguori , Eric Van Hensbergen , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lguest , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200711271026.00084.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/UGLN10NoKqY0a8PxnplSu12IHjAmUBbtb49v Y8MZm7aEsQOyD38aNcJHO3dmnBlwIGfddGVayG9zHBQ0lgnKHn jk4NgEyKAX51t4gTVgI2w== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1777 Lines: 45 On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Avi Kivity wrote: > > :-) ?Do you know if there is a hard limit on the number of devices on > > a PCI bus? ?My concern was that it was limited by something stupid > > like an 8-bit identifier. > > IIRC pci slots are 8-bit, but you can have multiple buses, so > effectively 16 bits of device address space (discounting functions which > are likely not hot-pluggable). You have an 8 bit bus number and an 8 bit device/function number. The function number is 3 bits, so if you want to use only function 0 for everything, you are limited to a little under 8192 (2^(8+5)) devices per PCI domain. PC style hardware cannot easily address multiple PCI domains, but I think you can have them if you assume that the guest is using mmconfig. For using multiple buses, the easiest way could be to have every device/function on bus 0 be a bridge by itself, so you end up with a flat number space for the actual devices, $ lspci -t [0000:00]-+-00.0-[0000:01]--+-00.0 | +-01.0 | +-02.0 | + ... | \-3f.0 +-00.1-[0000:02]--+-00.0 | +-01.0 | +-02.0 | + ... | \-3f.0 + ... | +-3f.6-[0000:ff]--+-00.0 +-01.0 +-02.0 + ... \-3f.0 Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/