From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] pseries: Increase maximum CPUs to 256
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:44:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110419124414.GA7417@yookeroo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A5F020D6-5511-4A8B-8B0A-AD70A79CF9E3@suse.de>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:38:58AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 19.04.2011, at 03:54, David Gibson wrote:
>
> > From: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>
> >
> > The original pSeries machine was limited to 32 CPUs, more or less
> > arbitrarily. Particularly when we get SMT KVM guests it will be
> > pretty easy to exceed this. Therefore, raise the max number of CPUs
> > in a pseries machine guest to 256.
>
> Are the 256 limited by technical limits or arbitrary as well? :)
Still arbitrary, just bigger.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-19 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 1:54 [Qemu-devel] [0/3] More pSeries machine tweaks David Gibson
2011-04-19 1:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] pseries: Increase maximum CPUs to 256 David Gibson
2011-04-19 7:38 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-19 12:44 ` David Gibson [this message]
2011-04-19 15:02 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-20 6:31 ` David Gibson
2011-04-20 7:12 ` Alexander Graf
2011-04-19 1:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Make pSeries 'model' property more closely resemble real hardware David Gibson
2011-04-19 1:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Place pseries vty devices at addresses more similar to existing machines David Gibson
2011-04-25 16:42 ` [Qemu-devel] pSeries build breakage Andreas Färber
2011-04-26 10:02 ` David Gibson
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