From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] kvm: enable smp > 1 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:48:03 +0300 Message-ID: <4BED70B3.50202@redhat.com> References: <0af691d779965663abdd7bc708c2ad7bce2f6da0.1273699506.git.mtosatti@redhat.com> <659C91C0-E58A-43F6-A262-A15613E84FD3@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Graf Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44976 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751493Ab0ENPsM (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 May 2010 11:48:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <659C91C0-E58A-43F6-A262-A15613E84FD3@suse.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/14/2010 05:06 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 12.05.2010, at 23:25, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >> Process INIT/SIPI requests and enable -smp> 1. >> > Does this enable real SMP or does it still only allow one vcpu to run at a time? > > The realest ever. Still doesn't use in-kernel irqchip (qemu-kvm does "real" smp with -no-kvm-irqchip as well). -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.