From: drjones@redhat.com (Andrew Jones)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Increase max VCPUs per-Guest to 8
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:51:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130914085059.GA2596@hawk.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52330943.4090309@arm.com>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:46:59PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 11/09/13 14:02, Anup Patel wrote:
> > Current max VCPUs per-Guest is set to 4 which is preventing
> > us from creating a Guest (or VM) with 8 VCPUs on Host (e.g.
> > X-Gene Storm SOC) with 8 Host CPUs.
> >
> > The correct value of max VCPUs per-Guest should be same as
> > the max CPUs supported by GICv2 which is 8 hence this patch
> > increases KVM_MAX_VCPUS to 8.
>
> If anything, please make it configurable just like we have on 32bit. No
> reason to impose the extra overhead on everyone.
I have a couple patches I've been meaning to post, one of which does
this. I'll get them posted now.
drew
>
> Thanks,
>
> M.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@linaro.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > index 0859a4d..60ef29e 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
> > #include <asm/kvm_asm.h>
> > #include <asm/kvm_mmio.h>
> >
> > -#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 4
> > +#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 8
> > #define KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS 32
> > #define KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS 4
> > #define KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET 1
> >
>
>
> --
> Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 13:02 [PATCH] arm64: KVM: Increase max VCPUs per-Guest to 8 Anup Patel
2013-09-13 12:46 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-09-14 8:51 ` Andrew Jones [this message]
2013-09-14 11:58 ` Andrew Jones
2013-09-14 12:13 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-09-14 12:36 ` Andrew Jones
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