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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/7] ppc: move smp_threads sanity checks
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To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Cedric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>, Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 11:12 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> I'm not comfortable with this.=C2=A0 SMT may only be used for pseries a=
t
> the moment, but the SMT possibilities are absolutely a constraint of
> the CPU itself, not the machine type.=C2=A0 It seems more logical to me=
 to
> check this in the CPU code.

Also powernv uses them too no ?

Ben.