Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Rusty, > > currently virtio_blk uses one major number per device. While this works > quite well on most systems it is wasteful and will exhaust major numbers > on larger installations. > > This patch allocates a major number on init and will use 16 minor numbers > for each disk. That will allow ~64k virtio_blk disks. >
There's are some other limitations to the number of virtio block devices. For instances... > sprintf(vblk->disk->disk_name, "vd%c", virtblk_index++); This gets bogus after 64 disks. We also have a hard limit for virtio-pci based on the number of PCI slots available. One thing I was considering was whether we should try to support multiple disks per virtio device. Otherwise, this patch looks good to me. Regards, Anthony Liguori ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
