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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com>, afaerber@suse.de, ehabkost@redhat.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] target-i386: prevent users from setting threads>1 for AMD CPUs
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 23:08:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5436F933.8080204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5436EE6A.6030705@redhat.com>

Il 09/10/2014 22:22, Wei Huang ha scritto:
> 
> Given that back-ward compatibility is a concern, will the following work?
> 
> 1. Instead of bailing out, print a warning message (e.g. to log file via
> error_report) in QEMU.
> 2. [optional] Eduardo Habkost suggested that we can create a new machine
> model which more strictly checks threads=n option for AMD. For any
> existing machine config, we don't force it; but warning message still
> applies. This is optional because it is a bit over-killed IMO.
> 3. Gives out a warning in virt-manager as well. This is similar to
> "Overcomming CPUs will slow down performance" in current virt-manager
> screen. The message will read "Chosen CPU model doesn't support
> hyperthreading" or something similar.

I like (1) and (3).

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 19:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] target-i386: prevent users from setting threads>1 for AMD CPUs Wei Huang
2014-10-07 20:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07 21:16   ` Wei Huang
2014-10-07 21:36     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-08  0:41       ` Wei Huang
2014-10-08  7:47         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-09 20:22           ` Wei Huang
2014-10-09 21:08             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-10-09 22:16               ` Eduardo Habkost
2014-10-21 15:11                 ` Wei Huang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-07 19:17 Wei Huang
2014-10-07 19:42 ` Wei Huang

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