Re: [PATCH 2/2] qemu-options: Add missing "sockets=2" to CLI "-smp 2"

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:58:20PM +0800, wangyanan (Y) wrote:
> 
> On 2021/9/28 18:46, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 9/28/21 11:31, Yanan Wang wrote:
> > > There is one example of -smp CLI in qemu-options.hx currently
> > > using "-smp 2" and assuming that there will be 2 sockets.
> > > However now the actually calculation logic of missing sockets
> > > and cores is not immutable, we should use more explicit CLIs
> > > like "-smp 2,sockets=2" if we want multiple sockets.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >   qemu-options.hx | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> > > index dcd9595650..ff8917c5e1 100644
> > > --- a/qemu-options.hx
> > > +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> > > @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ SRST
> > >           -m 2G \
> > >           -object memory-backend-ram,size=1G,id=m0 \
> > >           -object memory-backend-ram,size=1G,id=m1 \
> > > -        -smp 2 \
> > > +        -smp 2,sockets=2,maxcpus=2 \
> > Is the addition of "maxcpus=2" intentional?
> Yes, but it's not necessary IMO. I just wanted to keep consistency
> with other numa config examples in the Doc. Should I remove it ?

I think it makes sense to be explicit, because the numa config
works in terms of maxcpus when splitting cpus between nodes


Regards,
Daniel
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