This is backed by the qemu device "pxb".
The pxb device always includes a pci-bridge that is at the bus number
of the pxb + 1.
busNr and <node> from the <target> subelement are used to set the
bus_nr and numa_node options for pxb.
During post-parse we validate that the domain's machinetype is
440fx-based (since the pxb device only works on 440fx-based machines),
and <node> also gets a sanity check to assure that the NUMA node
specified for the pxb (if any - it's optional) actually exists on the
guest.
This is a standard PCI root bus (not a bridge) that can be added to a
440fx-based domain. Although it uses a PCI slot, this is *not* how it
is connected into the PCI bus hierarchy, but is only used for
control. Each pci-expander-bus provides 32 slots (0-31) that can
accept hotplug of standard PCI devices.
The usefulness of pci-expander-bus relative to a pci-bridge is that
the NUMA node of the bus can be specified with the <node> subelement
of <target>. This gives guest-side visibility to the NUMA node of
attached devices (presuming that management apps only assign a device
to a bus that has a NUMA node number matching the node number of the
device on the host).
Each pci-expander-bus also has a "busNr" attribute. The expander-bus
itself will take the busNr specified, and all buses that are connected
to this bus (including the pci-bridge that is automatically added to
any expander bus of model "pxb" (see the next commit)) will use
busNr+1, busNr+2, etc, and the pci-root (or the expander-bus with next
lower busNr) will use bus numbers lower than busNr.