From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1MMskn-0001N3-7c
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:17 -0400
Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43)
	id 1MMski-0001F7-HN
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:16 -0400
Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56475 helo=monty-python.gnu.org)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MMski-0001Ev-DT
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:12 -0400
Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:24003)
	by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32)
	(Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <jamie@shareable.org>) id 1MMskh-0006Ji-Mt
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:12 -0400
Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115])
	by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <jamie@shareable.org>) id 1MMskg-0002Q2-IA
	for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:05:10 -0400
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 01:04:58 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] allow multi-core guests: introduce cores=
	option to -cpu
Message-ID: <20090704000458.GA7702@shareable.org>
References: <1246632116-31366-1-git-send-email-andre.przywara@amd.com>
	<4A4E20BA.2040100@theiggy.com> <4A4E8BAE.7090602@amd.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <4A4E8BAE.7090602@amd.com>
List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/qemu-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>,
	<mailto:qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org?subject=subscribe>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Cc: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org

Andre Przywara wrote:
> So what about: "-smp 4,cores=2,threads=2[,sockets=1]" to inject 4 vCPUs 
> in one package (automatically determined if omitted) with two cores and 
> two threads/core? All parameters except the number of vCPUs would be 
> optional,

Why is the number of vCPUs required at all?

   -smp cores=2,threads=2

The "4" is redundant.

-- Jamie