Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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
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
> f
Am Donnerstag, 31. Januar 2008 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> 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.
Right. I will fix that with an additio
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
> f
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
