Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] hw/arm/virt: increase max SMP CPU support to 8 for ARM virt

[Wei Huang <wehuang@redhat.com>]

On 08/21/2014 09:59 AM, Joel Schopp wrote:
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> On 08/21/2014 09:51 AM, Wei Huang wrote:
>> Current ARM virt model supports up to 4 CPUs. Given that many recent
>> ARM servers contain 8 or more cores, it is time to bump up max guest CPUs
>> to 8. This patch was tested with a VM runnng 3.15 Linux kernel. All 8
>> VCPUs showed up.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wei Huang <wehuang@redhat.com>
> Great minds think alike :)
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg03306.html
Oops, I missed this one. Thanks for pointing it out. :P

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>> ---
>>   hw/arm/virt.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
>> index ba94298..73a2a0f 100644
>> --- a/hw/arm/virt.c
>> +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
>> @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static QEMUMachine machvirt_a15_machine = {
>>       .name = "virt",
>>       .desc = "ARM Virtual Machine",
>>       .init = machvirt_init,
>> -    .max_cpus = 4,
>> +    .max_cpus = 8,
>>   };
>>   static void machvirt_machine_init(void)
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