From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47200 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OCx7V-0000rq-V7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 11:48:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCx7Q-00060Y-Nu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 11:48:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21195) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OCx7Q-00060Q-G4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 14 May 2010 11:48:08 -0400 Message-ID: <4BED70B3.50202@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:48:03 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <0af691d779965663abdd7bc708c2ad7bce2f6da0.1273699506.git.mtosatti@redhat.com> <659C91C0-E58A-43F6-A262-A15613E84FD3@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <659C91C0-E58A-43F6-A262-A15613E84FD3@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 10/12] kvm: enable smp > 1 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: Anthony Liguori , Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On 05/14/2010 05:06 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 12.05.2010, at 23:25, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >> Process INIT/SIPI requests and enable -smp> 1. >> > Does this enable real SMP or does it still only allow one vcpu to run at a time? > > The realest ever. Still doesn't use in-kernel irqchip (qemu-kvm does "real" smp with -no-kvm-irqchip as well). -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.