From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Increase the "hard" max VCPU limit Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:18:01 +0300 Message-ID: <20130428101801.GG30504@redhat.com> References: <1367112664-19862-1-git-send-email-chegu_vinod@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Chegu Vinod Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1367112664-19862-1-git-send-email-chegu_vinod@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 06:31:04PM -0700, Chegu Vinod wrote: > KVM guests today use 8bit APIC ids allowing for 256 ID's. Reserving one > ID for Broadcast interrupts should leave 255 ID's. In case of KVM there > is no need for reserving another ID for IO-APIC so the hard max limit for > VCPUS can be increased from 254 to 255. (This was confirmed by Gleb Natapov > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/99713 ) > > Signed-off-by: Chegu Vinod Applied, thanks. > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h > index 4979778..bc57bfa 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h > @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > #include > #include > > -#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 254 > +#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 255 > #define KVM_SOFT_MAX_VCPUS 160 > #define KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS 125 > /* memory slots that are not exposed to userspace */ > -- > 1.7.1 -- Gleb.