Hopefully not too annoying: SMP guests question

Hopefully not too annoying: SMP guests question

[Paul Dorman]

Hi all,

could someone please give me a quick update on the status of SMP guests?
I'd like to know whether we are likely to get an SMP Dom0 machine
working stably. What are the risks with going with SMP guests at the
moment? What branch should I download if I go ahead?

The server we are going to run on is a dual 3GHz Xeon on a Gigabyte
GA-GILDR with Intel E7520 MCH, Intel ICH5R IO, and 6700PXH PCI-X (which
won't be used). System memory will be 2GiB, storage will be two RAID-1
striped Seagate 15K U320 drives.

We aren't planning any exotic hardware support (just what's on the
board).

Your expert opinion will be much valued!

Regards,
Paul Dorman

RE: Hopefully not too annoying: SMP guests question

[Ian Pratt]

> could someone please give me a quick update on the status of 
> SMP guests?
> I'd like to know whether we are likely to get an SMP Dom0 
> machine working stably. What are the risks with going with 
> SMP guests at the moment? What branch should I download if I go ahead?

SMP guests are available in the unstable tree, and seem to work well.
We're about to enable CONFIG_SMP in our nightly builds.

You might want to wait until 3.0-testing gets forked, which is pretty
close. The number of missing features/bugs on the wiki is going down
nicely.

Ian

> The server we are going to run on is a dual 3GHz Xeon on a 
> Gigabyte GA-GILDR with Intel E7520 MCH, Intel ICH5R IO, and 
> 6700PXH PCI-X (which won't be used). System memory will be 
> 2GiB, storage will be two RAID-1 striped Seagate 15K U320 drives.
> 
> We aren't planning any exotic hardware support (just what's 
> on the board).
> 
> Your expert opinion will be much valued!
> 
> Regards,
> Paul Dorman
> 
> 
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