From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: jusual@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, laine@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] pc: support user provided NIC naming/indexing
Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 09:32:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210514093116-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210315180102.3008391-1-imammedo@redhat.com>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 02:00:56PM -0400, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>
> Changes since rfc:
> * make sure that acpi-index unique
> * use dedicated MMIO register for it
> * drop syntetic acpi-label field in _DSM
> * add more comments
Could you rebase and repost please?
Some comments in commit log about use for non-NIC devices
would be helpful (even if it's just that "currently does not seem to be useful for
non-NICs").
> Series implements support for 'onboard' naming scheme for network
> interfaces (1), which is based on PCI firmware spec and lets user
> to explicitly specify index that will be used by guest to name
> network interface, ex:
> -device e1000,acpi-index=33
> should make guest rename NIC name to 'eno33' where 'eno' is default
> prefix for this scheme.
>
> Hope is that it will allow to simplify launching VMs from
> template disk images with different set VM configurations
> without need to reconfigure guest network intrfaces or
> risk of loosing network connectivity.
>
> For more detailed description/examples see patches [3-4/5]
>
> 1)
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
>
> Git repo for testing:
> https://github.com/imammedo/qemu/branches acpi-index-v1
>
>
> CC: laine@redhat.com
> CC: mst@redhat.com
> CC: jusual@redhat.com
>
> Igor Mammedov (6):
> tests: acpi: temporary whitelist DSDT changes
> pci: introduce apci-index property for PCI device
> pci: acpi: ensure that acpi-index is unique
> acpi: add aml_to_decimalstring() and aml_call6() helpers
> pci: acpi: add _DSM method to PCI devices
> tests: acpi: update expected blobs
>
> include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h | 3 +
> include/hw/acpi/pci.h | 1 +
> include/hw/acpi/pcihp.h | 9 ++-
> include/hw/pci/pci.h | 1 +
> hw/acpi/aml-build.c | 28 ++++++++
> hw/acpi/pci.c | 1 -
> hw/acpi/pcihp.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> hw/acpi/piix4.c | 3 +-
> hw/acpi/trace-events | 2 +
> hw/i386/acpi-build.c | 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> hw/pci/pci.c | 1 +
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT | Bin 5065 -> 6002 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.acpihmat | Bin 6390 -> 7327 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.bridge | Bin 6924 -> 8668 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.cphp | Bin 5529 -> 6466 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.dimmpxm | Bin 6719 -> 7656 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.hpbridge | Bin 5026 -> 5969 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.ipmikcs | Bin 5137 -> 6074 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.memhp | Bin 6424 -> 7361 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.nohpet | Bin 4923 -> 5860 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.numamem | Bin 5071 -> 6008 bytes
> tests/data/acpi/pc/DSDT.roothp | Bin 5261 -> 6210 bytes
> 22 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.27.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-14 13:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-15 18:00 [PATCH 0/6] pc: support user provided NIC naming/indexing Igor Mammedov
2021-03-15 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/6] tests: acpi: temporary whitelist DSDT changes Igor Mammedov
2021-03-15 18:00 ` [PATCH 2/6] pci: introduce apci-index property for PCI device Igor Mammedov
2021-04-06 9:47 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-06 17:38 ` Igor Mammedov
2021-05-14 13:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-03-15 18:00 ` [PATCH 3/6] pci: acpi: ensure that acpi-index is unique Igor Mammedov
2021-03-15 18:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] acpi: add aml_to_decimalstring() and aml_call6() helpers Igor Mammedov
2021-03-15 18:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] pci: acpi: add _DSM method to PCI devices Igor Mammedov
2021-03-15 18:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] tests: acpi: update expected blobs Igor Mammedov
2021-03-15 18:36 ` [PATCH 0/6] pc: support user provided NIC naming/indexing no-reply
2021-03-15 20:21 ` Igor Mammedov
2021-05-14 13:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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