> A concern here is the growing size of the virtio-net I/O port space > config. This series brings it up to 256 bytes with PCI resource > rounding. The VLAN filter bitmap would increase that by another 512 > bytes, making it 1kB and limiting us to something less than 64 such > devices per guest. Is anyone worried? Should filter tables live in > MMIO space for virtio devices? I'll send out the guest side patches for > virtio-net in a separate thread. Thanks,
This is one reason why IO ports are a reallybad idea. Use memory mapped register spaces like any other sane system and you won't have a problem. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
