Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio-pci msix error

[Fam Zheng]

On Wed, 05/20 11:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 20 May 2015 at 10:58, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:11:26PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On 19 May 2015 at 20:16, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 08:54:36AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> >> >> Re patch c7ff5482.  What's the point of this error?
> >> >> It's going to always appear for older targets that
> >> >> predate such new fangled things as msix.
> >> >>
> >> >> Obviously the patch has been there a while, and it's
> >> >> not actually causing any problems, but today it got
> >> >> on my nerves...
> >>
> >> > So don't specify nvectors > 0 for these platforms then?
> >>
> >> How do you do that? I did a quick 'git grep' for nvectors
> >> and none of the hits are in platform-dependent code...
> >>
> >> Why can't the virtio-pci device automatically detect
> >> whether the PCI bus it's plugged into supports MSIx
> >> and just do the right thing?
> 
> > I mean why does *user* specify nvectors > 0?
> 
> The user isn't specifying nvectors at all. That's why
> the message is annoying...

So I think it's better to fix the default for old targets?

Fam