Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] Introduce per machine based max_cpu variable

[Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>]

Paul Brook wrote:
>> Here's an attempt of implementing a per-machine max_cpus variable.
>> This means developers can limit smp support to match the actual board
>> sizes. It also makes the static MAX_CPUS check in vl.c obsolete which
>> I think is a good thing :-)
> 
> This looks reasonable, but is still not an ideal solution.  It is an 
> improvement over what we currently have, so I'm not going to object to it 
> being applied.
> 
> The maximum number of CPUs may be a property of the CPU, not the board.  
> Especially in the embedded world it's becoming common to have multicore CPUs 
> connected to dumb single socket systems/boards.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the feedback.

I don't think this patch will conflict with what you describe. I think
eventually we will want to have flags that allow the user to specify
the number of sockets and cores per socket to handle this. However I
don't know how far the QEMU system emulation layer is from being able to
actually simulate this.

Cheers,
Jes