Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/19] s390x: allow only 1 CPU with TCG

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:49:49 +0200
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 06.09.2017 23:20, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On 09/06/2017 11:16 AM, Matthew Rosato wrote:  
> >> On 09/04/2017 11:43 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:  
> >>> Specifying more than 1 CPU (e.g. -smp 5) leads to SIGP errors (the
> >>> guest tries to bring these CPUs up but fails), because we don't support
> >>> multiple CPUs on s390x under TCG.
> >>>
> >>> Let's bail out if more than 1 is specified, so we don't raise people's
> >>> hope. Make it a define, so we can easily bump it up later.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> >>> ---  
> >>
> >> Makes sense.  Ran the described environment without this patch (errors)
> >> and again with this patch (graceful exit w/ message).
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.vnet.ibm.com>  
> > 
> > Can someone review
> > 
> >   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/760010/
> >   
> 
> Yes, we also discovered that patch during review of v1.
> 
> > which does at least start to add the SIGP support.
> > 
> > Once tcg can bring up 2 cpus, I see no reason it couldn't bring up N.  I don't
> > see the point of the define.
> >   
> 
> Conny requested a define. So it boils down to
> 
> a) no define just as in v1
> b) a define like S390_TCG_SMP_SUPPORTED
> 
> What do you suggest?

FWIW, I'd prefer b).

> 
> > 
> > r~
> >   
> 
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