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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc/pnv: fix cores per chip for multiple cpus
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 21:49:33 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170922114933.GU4998@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42a1f20a-09d0-f510-c3be-4062b7ffdafe@kaod.org>

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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:37:39PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >> well, it would be good to be able to define chips with different
> >> numbers of cpus. That is something will we want to do for sure.
> > 
> > You mean multiple chips in a single system with non-uniform numbers of
> > cores?  Are there really such systems in the wild?
> > 
> 
> When CPU fail for some reason, yes. They are garded by the FW and next
> boot the system will have different numbers of CPUs on its chip.

Ok, but you can model that with max_cpus the full potential number,
then just don't have all of them on initially.  The basic topology
remains uniform.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-22 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-06  8:27 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc/pnv: fix cores per chip for multiple cpus Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-08  6:38 ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-09  7:02 ` David Gibson
2017-09-11  5:10   ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-13  7:35     ` David Gibson
2017-09-14  5:12       ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-15  6:48         ` David Gibson
2017-09-15  8:23           ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-15  8:51             ` David Gibson
2017-09-15  9:09               ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-19  8:24                 ` David Gibson
2017-09-20  4:20                   ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-20  4:55                     ` David Gibson
2017-09-20  5:13                       ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-20  6:17                         ` David Gibson
2017-09-20  6:40                           ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-20  6:50                             ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-20  6:57                             ` David Gibson
2017-09-20  7:18                               ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-20  8:12                                 ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-20 11:53                                 ` David Gibson
2017-09-21  3:54                                   ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-21  5:31                                     ` David Gibson
2017-09-22  6:00                                       ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-22  6:07                                         ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-22 10:12                                           ` David Gibson
2017-09-22 10:46                                             ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-22 11:20                                               ` David Gibson
2017-09-22 11:37                                                 ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-22 11:49                                                   ` David Gibson [this message]
2017-09-22 11:46                                                 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Greg Kurz
2017-09-22 10:56                                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-22 11:06                                           ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2017-09-22 11:36                                           ` David Gibson
2017-09-21  6:04                                     ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-09-21  7:42                                       ` Igor Mammedov
2017-09-22 10:09                                         ` David Gibson
2017-09-22 10:08                                       ` David Gibson
2017-09-22 10:52                                         ` Cédric Le Goater

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