[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] Add pcihole64 attribute to root PCI controllers

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Tue Aug 13 09:53:42 UTC 2013


On 08/13/2013 10:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root' pcihole64='1'/>
>>
>> It can be used to adjust (or disable) the size of the 64-bit
>> PCI hole. The size attribute is in gigabytes, since it would
>> get rounded up to nearest GB by QEMU anyway.
> 
> Choosing the units based on what one specific hypervisor happens to
> currently do has proven to be a pretty bad idea in the past. I'd say
> we should be using KB here. Or better yet, have this as a separate
> child element, and then support a 'units' attribute at the same time,
> defaulting to KB. 
> 

Would it be okay to use the largest usable unit when formatting the XML
to make it more human-friendly?

Jan




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