From: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>
Cc: "Ani Sinha" <anisinha@redhat.com>,
"Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Igor Mammedov" <imammedo@redhat.com>,
"Julia Suvorova" <jusual@redhat.com>,
kraxel@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH v3] pc: q35: Bump max_cpus to 4096 vcpus
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:12:04 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240220154204.29676-1-anisinha@redhat.com> (raw)
Since commit f10a570b093e6 ("KVM: x86: Add CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS to allow up to 4096 vCPUs")
Linux kernel can support upto a maximum number of 4096 vCPUS when MAXSMP is
enabled in the kernel. At present, QEMU has been tested to correctly boot a
linux guest with 4096 vcpus both with edk2 and seabios firmwares.
So bump up the value max_cpus to 4096 for q35 machines versions 9 and newer.
Q35 machines versions 8.2 and older continue to support 1024 maximum vcpus
as before for compatibility reasons.
If KVM is not able to support the specified number of vcpus, QEMU would
return the following error messages:
$ ./qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -accel kvm -machine q35 -smp 1728
qemu-system-x86_64: -accel kvm: warning: Number of SMP cpus requested (1728) exceeds the recommended cpus supported by KVM (12)
qemu-system-x86_64: -accel kvm: warning: Number of hotpluggable cpus requested (1728) exceeds the recommended cpus supported by KVM (12)
Number of SMP cpus requested (1728) exceeds the maximum cpus supported by KVM (1024)
Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Julia Suvorova <jusual@redhat.com>
Cc: kraxel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <anisinha@redhat.com>
---
hw/i386/pc_q35.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Changelog:
v3: bump up to 4096 vcpus. It has now been tested to work with edk2.
See RH Jira: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-22202
v2: bump up the vcpu number to 1856. Add failure messages from ekd2 in
the commit description.
diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_q35.c b/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
index d346fa3b1d..ae60e6b919 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc_q35.c
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ static void pc_q35_machine_options(MachineClass *m)
m->default_nic = "e1000e";
m->default_kernel_irqchip_split = false;
m->no_floppy = 1;
- m->max_cpus = 1024;
+ m->max_cpus = 4096;
m->no_parallel = !module_object_class_by_name(TYPE_ISA_PARALLEL);
machine_class_allow_dynamic_sysbus_dev(m, TYPE_AMD_IOMMU_DEVICE);
machine_class_allow_dynamic_sysbus_dev(m, TYPE_INTEL_IOMMU_DEVICE);
@@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ static void pc_q35_8_2_machine_options(MachineClass *m)
{
pc_q35_9_0_machine_options(m);
m->alias = NULL;
+ m->max_cpus = 1024;
compat_props_add(m->compat_props, hw_compat_8_2, hw_compat_8_2_len);
compat_props_add(m->compat_props, pc_compat_8_2, pc_compat_8_2_len);
}
--
2.42.0
next reply other threads:[~2024-02-20 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-20 15:42 Ani Sinha [this message]
2024-02-20 15:50 ` [PATCH v3] pc: q35: Bump max_cpus to 4096 vcpus Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-02-20 16:16 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2024-02-20 16:22 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-02-21 5:29 ` Ani Sinha
2024-02-21 12:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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