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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 0.11: SMP guests using one host CPU only?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:41:39 +0900
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On 10/20/2009 06:03 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> On a 8 CPU host, I created a guest with 4 CPUs (-smp 4).
>
> Unfortunately, the guest only uses one host CPU.
> For example, running "cat /dev/urandom | gzip -9 >/dev/null &" several 
> times on this guest causes load on only one host CPU.
>
> Is it expected?

No.  What does 'top -H' show?

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