Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Make virtio devices multi-function

[Anthony L. <an...@co...>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> This patch changes virtio devices to be multi-function devices whenever
>> possible.  This increases the number of virtio devices we can support now by
>> a factor of 8.
>>
>> With this patch, I've been able to launch a guest with either 220 disks or 220
>> network adapters.
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> Does this play well with hotplug?  Perhaps we need to allocate a new 
> device on hotplug.
>   

Probably not.  I imagine you can only hotplug devices, not individual 
functions?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> (certainly if we have a device with one function, which then gets 
> converted to a multifunction device)
>
>