From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Bruce Rogers <brogers@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] limit guest cpus for kvm enabled builds
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:05:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904091705.20024.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49DDC4160200004800071C73@lucius.provo.novell.com>
On Thursday 09 April 2009, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> The x86 kvm kernel module limits guest cpu count to 16, but the userspace
> pc definition says 255 still. When invoking qemu-kvm with -smp > 16, it
> prints some error messages, then segfaults. One of the mistakes is that
> the error code from kvm_create_vcpu is ignored in ap_main_loop.
You should fix that bug then.
> This patch will enforce the limit at initialization time and avoid these
> problems from the get go.
No. We still want to support a decent number of cpus when -no-kvm is
specified.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 15:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] limit guest cpus for kvm enabled builds Bruce Rogers
2009-04-09 16:05 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-04-09 16:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-09 17:27 ` Bruce Rogers
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