> On May 9, 2025, at 9:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 08:40:54AM -0700, Matthew R. Ochs via Devel wrote:
>> Resending: Series has been re-based over latest upstream.
>> 
>> This patch series adds support for configuring the PCI high memory MMIO
>> window size for aarch64 virt machine types. This feature has been merged
>> into the QEMU upstream master branch [1] and will be available in QEMU 10.0.
>> It allows users to configure the size of the high memory MMIO window above
>> 4GB, which is particularly useful for systems with large amounts of PCI
>> memory requirements.
>> 
>> The feature is exposed through the domain XML as a new PCI feature:
>> <features>
>>  <pci>
>>    <highmem-mmio-size unit='G'>512</highmem-mmio-size>
>>  </pci>
>> </features>
> 
> As a schema design comment. IIUC, the MMIO size we're configuring
> is conceptually a characteristic associated with the PCI(e) host
> and the memory layout it defines for PCI(e) devices to use.

Correct.

> Checking through our schema I find we already have support
> for
> 
>    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
>      <pcihole64 unit='KiB'>1048576</pcihole64>
>    </controller>
> 
> this makes me think that we should model this new attribute
> in a similar way, eg so we can support:
> 
>    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
>      <pcihole64 unit='KiB'>1048576</pcihole64>
>      <pcimmio64 unit='TiB'>2</pcimmio64>
>    </controller>
> 
> (pci-root or pcie-root are interchangable).
> 
> This 'pcimmio64' value can then be mapped to whatever hypervisor
> or architecture specific setting is appropriate, avoiding exposing
> the QEMU arm 'highmem-mmio-size' naming convention.

Thanks for the feedback, this sounds like a better approach.

Would it make sense to just use the existing pcihole64 since [I think]
it more or less represents the same concept (setting 64bit MMIO window)?

Or perhaps that would be too messy or x86-centric and it’s better to go
with what you proposed (pcimmio64)?

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