Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/04/2016 22:05, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> 
> I looked closer at your setup and it appears the SeaBIOS virtio-scsi
> driver is very slow because it does a full search of all 256 possible
> scsi targets.  This full scan takes a lot of time.  I put together a
> quick patch (see below) to stop the scan early.  Gerd/Paulo, do you
> know if what I've done is valid and/or if there is a better way we can
> limit the virtio-scsi scan?

No, it's not possible because target numbers are arbitrary.  We can
submit all 256 requests at the same time perhaps.

Paolo