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Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:10:47 +0100 |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:07:17PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/14/2010 12:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >On 10/13/2010 05:32 PM, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
> >>
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Using the legacy way of starting up NICs, I am hitting a limitation
> >>after 29
> >>NICs ie no more than 29 are detected (that's because of the 32 PCI slot
> >>limit on a single bus- 3 are already taken up)
> >>I had initially increased the MAX_NICS to 48, just on my tree, to get to
> >>more, but ofcource that wont work.
> >>Is there any way to go beyond 29 NICs the legacy way? What is the
> >>maximum
> >>that can be supported by the qdev mothod?
> >
> >I got up to 104 without trying very hard using the following script:
> >
> >args=""
> >for slot in 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17; do
> >for fn in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do
> > args="$args -netdev user,id=eth${slot}_${fn}"
> > args="$args -device
> >virtio-net-pci,addr=${slot}.${fn},netdev=eth${slot}_${fn},multifunction=on,romfile="
> >done
> >done
> >
> >x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ~/images/linux.img ${args}
> >-enable-kvm
> >
> >The key is to make the virtio-net devices multifunction and to fill
> >out all 8 functions for each slot.
>
> This is unlikely to work right wrt pci hotplug. If we want to support a
> large number of interfaces, we need true multiport cards.
Or a PCI bridge to wire up more PCI buses, so we raise the max limit for
any type of device we emulate.
Daniel
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- [Qemu-devel] Re: 8 NIC limit, Dustin Kirkland, 2010/10/05
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- [Qemu-devel] Re: 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32, linux_kvm, 2010/10/06
- [Qemu-devel] Re: 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/06
- [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit (was Re: 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32), Anjali Kulkarni, 2010/10/13
- [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anjali Kulkarni, 2010/10/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Avi Kivity, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit,
Daniel P. Berrange <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, H. Peter Anvin, 2010/10/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Richard W.M. Jones, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Richard W.M. Jones, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anjali Kulkarni, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anjali Kulkarni, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Anthony Liguori, 2010/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit, Markus Armbruster, 2010/10/14