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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Anjali Kulkarni <anjali@juniper.net>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:07:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBCA8E6.3080101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB6FE30.1040904@codemonkey.ws>

On 10/14/2010 05:57 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> I've always been sceptical of this.  When physical systems have a large 
> number of NICs, it's via multiple functions, not a bunch of PCI bridges.
> 

Actually a lot of multiport PCI cards are in fact single or dual NICs
behind PCI bridges.

	-hpa

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anjali Kulkarni <anjali@juniper.net>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:07:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBCA8E6.3080101@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB6FE30.1040904@codemonkey.ws>

On 10/14/2010 05:57 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> I've always been sceptical of this.  When physical systems have a large 
> number of NICs, it's via multiple functions, not a bunch of PCI bridges.
> 

Actually a lot of multiport PCI cards are in fact single or dual NICs
behind PCI bridges.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-18 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-05 14:48 8 NIC limit linux_kvm
2010-10-05 15:24 ` Dustin Kirkland
2010-10-05 15:24   ` [Qemu-devel] " Dustin Kirkland
     [not found]   ` <1286294888.11462.1398488135@webmail.messagingengine.com>
     [not found]     ` <1286295603.7731.28.camel@x200>
2010-10-06  5:46       ` 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32 linux_kvm
2010-10-06  5:46         ` [Qemu-devel] " linux_kvm
2010-10-06 12:54         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-06 17:11           ` linux_kvm
2010-10-07  1:39             ` Chris Wright
2010-10-13 22:18         ` [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit (was Re: 8 NIC limit - patch - places limit at 32) Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-13 22:32           ` Hitting 29 NIC limit Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-13 22:32             ` [Qemu-devel] " Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-13 22:54             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-13 22:54               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 12:07               ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-14 12:07                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-14 12:10                 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-14 12:10                   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-10-14 12:57                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 12:57                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-18 20:07                     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-10-18 20:07                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-10-14 21:42                   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-10-14 21:42                     ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-10-14 21:57                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 21:57                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 22:00                       ` Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-14 22:00                         ` Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-14 22:09                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 22:09                           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 22:12                           ` Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-14 22:12                             ` Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-14 22:17                             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 22:17                               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-16 17:23                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-16 17:23                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-16 19:00                                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-11-16 19:00                                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 22:08                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Richard W.M. Jones
2010-10-14 22:08                         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2010-10-14 12:36                 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-10-14 12:36                   ` Markus Armbruster
2010-10-14 12:59                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 12:59                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-15  9:11                     ` Markus Armbruster
2010-10-15  9:11                       ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2010-10-15 18:49                       ` Passing in additional info to guest OS and e1000 test suite? Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-15 18:49                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Anjali Kulkarni
2010-10-15 20:02                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-15 20:02                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 12:54                 ` [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 12:54                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 13:23                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-14 13:23                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-14 14:11                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 14:11                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-10-14 14:53                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-14 14:53                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-28 20:52                 ` [Qemu-devel] Hitting 29 NIC limit (+Intel VT-c) linux_kvm
2010-11-16 17:21                 ` Hitting 29 NIC limit Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-16 17:21                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]                   ` <C9081994.3517C%anjali@juniper.net>
     [not found]                     ` <20101117105843.GB10168@redhat.com>
2010-11-18  3:09                       ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-11-18  5:41                         ` Wei Xu
2010-11-18  6:31                           ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-11-18  6:46                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18  7:09                           ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-11-18  7:15                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18  7:27                               ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-11-18 11:54                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2010-11-18 23:55                           ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-10-05 15:57 ` 8 " Markus Armbruster
2010-10-05 16:20   ` linux_kvm
2010-10-05 16:43 ` Brian Jackson

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