From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores= option to -cpu Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:17:13 +0300 Message-ID: <4A50C3F9.3000908@redhat.com> References: <1246632116-31366-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com> <4A4F745C.8010001@redhat.com> <4A50BE5D.5010005@redhat.com> <20090705150407.GK881@redhat.com> <4A50C28B.2070601@redhat.com> <319A05B3-654C-478B-994F-12A56294CEFE@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Natapov , Andre Przywara , anthony@codemonkey.ws, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Graf Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:55523 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752672AbZGEPPE (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Jul 2009 11:15:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <319A05B3-654C-478B-994F-12A56294CEFE@suse.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/05/2009 06:11 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 05.07.2009, at 17:11, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 07/05/2009 06:04 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: >>> core2duo does not imply 2 cores. OSes use cpuid to discover this >>> information. >>> >> >> It does. "Core 2" is the name of the core. "Core 2 Duo" is a 2-core >> package containing (a pair) this core. "Core 2 Solo" is a >> single-core package containing the core. > > Well, then let's better make it -cpu core2, no? Maybe have all three. But I agree -cpu core2 is better than -cpu core2duo. > The only problem I see is how to generate the description string. > Model number and the likes should be identical to a Core2Solo, right? I think so. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function