Re: [PATCH 2/2] qemu-options: Add missing "sockets=2" to CLI "-smp 2"

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 9/28/21 13:42, wangyanan (Y) wrote:
> 
> On 2021/9/28 19:01, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:58:20PM +0800, wangyanan (Y) wrote:
>>> On 2021/9/28 18:46, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> On 9/28/21 11:31, Yanan Wang wrote:
>>>>> There is one example of -smp CLI in qemu-options.hx currently
>>>>> using "-smp 2" and assuming that there will be 2 sockets.
>>>>> However now the actually calculation logic of missing sockets
>>>>> and cores is not immutable, we should use more explicit CLIs
>>>>> like "-smp 2,sockets=2" if we want multiple sockets.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    qemu-options.hx | 2 +-
>>>>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
>>>>> index dcd9595650..ff8917c5e1 100644
>>>>> --- a/qemu-options.hx
>>>>> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
>>>>> @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ SRST
>>>>>            -m 2G \
>>>>>            -object memory-backend-ram,size=1G,id=m0 \
>>>>>            -object memory-backend-ram,size=1G,id=m1 \
>>>>> -        -smp 2 \
>>>>> +        -smp 2,sockets=2,maxcpus=2 \
>>>> Is the addition of "maxcpus=2" intentional?
>>> Yes, but it's not necessary IMO. I just wanted to keep consistency
>>> with other numa config examples in the Doc. Should I remove it ?
>> I think it makes sense to be explicit, because the numa config
>> works in terms of maxcpus when splitting cpus between nodes
> The statement of this numa config example actually assume that
> there will be 2 cpus totally. Although based on behavior of the
> smp parser we will get maxcpus=2, I also tend to keep it explicitly.
> 
> But I should update subject of this patch and the commit message.

Once updated:
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>