[libvirt] [PATCH v5 0/4] qemu: Allow PCI virtio on ARM "virt" machine

[Michal Privoznik]

On 17.07.2015 13:27, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Virt machine in qemu since v2.3.0 has PCI generic host controller, and
> can use PCI devices. This provides performance improvement as well as
> vhost-net with irqfd support for virtio-net. However libvirt currently
> does not allow ARM virt machine to have PCI devices. This patchset adds
> the necessary support.
> 
> Changes since v4:
> - Rebased onto current master
> - Added possibility to plug virtio-net-pci adapter directly into PCIe bus.
>   This is necessary for irqfds to work in qemu.
> Changes since v3:
> - Capability is based not on qemu version but on support of "gpex-pcihost"
>   device by qemu
> - Added a workaround, allowing to pass "make check". The problem is that
>   test suite does not build capabilities cache. Unfortunately this means
>   that correct unit-test for the new functionality currently cannot be
>   written. Test suite framework needs to be improved.
> Changes since v2:
> Complete rework, use different approach
> - Correctly model PCI Express bus on the machine. It is now possible to
>   explicitly specify <address-type='pci'> with attributes. This allows to
>   attach not only virtio, but any other PCI device to the model.
> - Default is not changed and still mmio, for backwards compatibility with
>   existing installations. PCI bus has to be explicitly specified.
> - Check for the capability in correct place, in v2 it actually did not
>   work
> Changes since v1:
> - Added capability based on qemu version number
> - Recognize also "virt-" prefix
> 
> Pavel Fedin (4):
>   qemu: Introduce QEMU_CAPS_OBJECT_GPEX
>   Add PCI-Express root to ARM virt machine
>   Build correct command line for PCI NICs on ARM
>   Allow to plug virtio-net-pci into PCIe slot
> 
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h |  1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c      | 11 ++++++++++-
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c       | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

ACKed all the patches, squashed in the 2/4 amendment and pushed. Sorry
for the delay.

Michal