[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qmp: query-device-slots command

[Markus Armbruster]

Laine Stump <laine at redhat.com> writes:

> On 12/15/2016 05:12 AM, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>> On 12/14/2016 10:10 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
>>> On 12/14/2016 12:17 PM, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>>>> Be aware that 1 slot doesn't necessarily refer to only one device,
>>>> we can have a multi-function device.
>>>
>>> Is that a fixed thing? I mean, is it always possible to use all 8
>>> functions of a slot (assuming no hotplug of course)?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, you simply add to the function 0 on command line:  with -device
>> ...,multifunction=on.
>
> Yes, I know how the commandline works. my question is whether *all*
> PCI controllers in existence have 8 usable functions per slot, or if
> that might be another thing that is different from one controller to
> the next (and thus would have to be reported in these query
> responses).

Quote from PCI Express Base Specification Revision 3.0: "Each non-ARI
Device may contain up to eight Functions.  Each ARI Device may contain
up to 256 Functions."

The address format is defined by the PCI spec: bus number is 8 bits,
device number is 5, function number is 3.

However, a device may be an ARI device (ARI = Alternative Routing-ID
Interpretation), and then the device number bits are instead used for a
wider function number.  As far as I know, this is PCIe-only.  See PCI
Express Base Specification Revision 3.0, 6.13. Alternative Routing-ID
Interpretation (ARI).