From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number of vcpus per guest
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:21:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735sh2fr7.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62679c6a-2f23-c1d1-f54c-1872ec748965@suse.com>
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> writes:
> On 14.07.21 13:45, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd vote for introducing a 'ratio' parameter then so
>> generally users will only have to set 'kvm.max_vcpus'.
>
> Okay.
>
> Default '4' then? Or '2 ^ (topology_levels - 2)' (assuming a
> topology_level of 3 on Intel: thread/core/socket and 4 on EPYC:
> thread/core/package/socket).
I'd suggest we default to '4' for both Intel and AMD as we haven't given
up completely on cross-vendor VMs (running AMD VMs on Intel CPUs and
vice versa). It would be great to leave a comment where the number comes
from of course.
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-14 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-01 15:40 [PATCH 0/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameters for max vcpu configs Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:40 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:40 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/kvm: fix vcpu-id indexed array sizes Juergen Gross
2021-09-03 15:28 ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-07-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 2/6] x86/kvm: remove non-x86 stuff from arch/x86/kvm/ioapic.h Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 3/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for maximum vcpu-id Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] x86/kvm: introduce per cpu vcpu masks Juergen Gross
2021-07-26 13:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:38 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 5/6] kvm: allocate vcpu pointer array separately Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:41 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-01 15:41 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-26 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:46 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-26 13:46 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-26 13:46 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-26 13:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-26 13:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-26 13:57 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-07-01 15:41 ` [PATCH 6/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number of vcpus per guest Juergen Gross
2021-07-14 11:15 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-07-14 11:24 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-14 11:45 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-07-14 13:04 ` Juergen Gross
2021-07-14 13:21 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2021-09-03 7:01 ` Juergen Gross
2021-09-03 7:40 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-07-26 13:41 ` [PATCH 0/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameters for max vcpu configs Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-26 13:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
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