From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44427) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCCCJ-00083l-CE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:46:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCCCH-0002Fk-4q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:46:35 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:46729) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCCCG-0002Ed-PW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:46:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:44:14 +1000 From: David Gibson Message-ID: <20110419124414.GA7417@yookeroo> References: <1303178092-29891-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <1303178092-29891-2-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] pseries: Increase maximum CPUs to 256 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: paulus@samba.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, anton@samba.org 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 > > > > 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. -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson