From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:32792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCCRf-0003so-LY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:02:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCCRe-0005mv-Pb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:02:27 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38209 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCCRe-0005ge-KX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:02:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4DADA3FD.3040205@suse.de> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:02:21 +0200 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1303178092-29891-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <1303178092-29891-2-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <20110419124414.GA7417@yookeroo> In-Reply-To: <20110419124414.GA7417@yookeroo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, anton@samba.org, paulus@samba.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org On 04/19/2011 02:44 PM, David Gibson wrote: > 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. Can't we set it to the real, technical limit then? Alex