Document and the limitation of the PCI in Placement feature that it
does not support [pci]alias configuration where the name of the alias is
repeated. E.g.
[pci]
alias = { "name": "vf1", "product_id":"10ca", "vendor_id":"8086", "device_type":"type-VF"}
alias = { "name": "vf1", "product_id":"f000", "vendor_id":"8086", "device_type":"type-VF"}
This would mean the alias vf1 can be fulfilled from devices with product
id 10ca OR f000. However this OR relationship cannot be encoded to a
single Placement allocation query as Placement does not support
requesting alternative resource classes for a request[2].
This limitation was encoded in the original PCI in Placement
implementation[1] but we missed to mention it in the doc.
This is now fixed.
[1]https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/0d484ce37d86e989c8abdf57aec5e334f68206ef/nova/objects/request_spec.py#L504-L528
[2]https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/placement/#list-allocation-candidates
Related-Bug: #2102038
Change-Id: I9dd78b1498f870a4e4c3f26c23d42d105aec0350
Balazs Gibizer
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