The nec-usb-xhci device (which is a USB3 controller) has always
presented itself as a PCI device when plugged into a legacy PCI slot,
and a PCIe device when plugged into a PCIe slot, but libvirt has
always auto-assigned it to a legacy PCI slot.
This patch changes that behavior to auto-assign to a PCIe slot on
systems that have pcie-root (e.g. Q35 and aarch64/virt).
Since we don't yet auto-create pcie-*-port controllers on demand, this
means a config with an nec-xhci USB controller that has no PCI address
assigned will also need to have an otherwise-unused pcie-*-port
controller specified:
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='usb' model='nec-xhci'/>
(this assumes there is an otherwise-unused slot on pcie-root to accept
the pcie-root-port)
The e1000e is an emulated network device based on the Intel 82574,
present in qemu 2.7.0 and later. Among other differences from the
e1000, it presents itself as a PCIe device rather than legacy PCI. In
order to get it assigned to a PCIe controller, this patch updates the
flags setting for network devices when the model name is "e1000e".
(Note that for some reason libvirt has never validated the network
device model names other than to check that there are no dangerous
characters in them. That should probably change, but is the subject of
another patch.)
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343094
libvirt previously assigned nearly all devices to a "hotpluggable"
legacy PCI slot even on machines with a PCIe root bus (and even though
most such machines don't even support hotplug on legacy PCI slots!)
Forcing all devices onto legacy PCI slots means that the domain will
need a dmi-to-pci-bridge (to convert from PCIe to legacy PCI) and a
pci-bridge (to provide hotpluggable legacy PCI slots which, again,
usually aren't hotpluggable anyway).
To help reduce the need for these legacy controllers, this patch tries
to assign virtio-1.0-capable devices to PCIe slots whenever possible,
by setting appropriate connectFlags in
virDomainCalculateDevicePCIConnectFlags(). Happily, when that function
was written (just a few commits ago) it was created with a
"virtioFlags" argument, set by both of its callers, which is the
proper connectFlags to set for any virtio-*-pci device - depending on
the arch/machinetype of the domain, and whether or not the qemu binary
supports virtio-1.0, that flag will have either been set to PCI or
PCIe. This patch merely enables the functionality by setting the flags
for the device to whatever is in virtioFlags if the device is a
virtio-*-pci device.
NB: the first virtio video device will be placed directly on bus 0
slot 1 rather than on a pcie-root-port due to the override for primary
video devices in qemuDomainValidateDevicePCISlotsQ35(). Whether or not
to change that is a topic of discussion, but this patch doesn't change
that particular behavior.
NB2: since the slot must be hotpluggable, and pcie-root (the PCIe root
complex) does *not* support hotplug, this means that suitable
controllers must also be in the config (i.e. either pcie-root-port, or
pcie-downstream-port). For now, libvirt doesn't add those
automatically, so if you put virtio devices in a config for a qemu
that has PCIe-capable virtio devices, you'll need to add extra
pcie-root-ports yourself. That requirement will be eliminated in a
future patch, but for now, it's simple to do this:
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
<controller type='pci' model='pcie-root-port'/>
...
Partially Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1330024
