Re: [PATCHEs]: support more than 32 VCPUs in guests

[Mukesh Rathor <mukesh.rathor@oracle.com>]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:44:02 -0700
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> On 06/09/2010 04:09 PM, Mukesh Rathor wrote:
> > Jeremy, pv ops is OK as it is on 128 vcpus, but I reworked the 
> > xen_vcpu_setup() a little to address more than 32vcpus on xen that
> > doesn't have vcpu placement. Please take a look.
> >   
> 
> Why BUG_ON if the number of cpus is too high?  Why not just ignore the
> excess ones?
> 
>     J

Yeah, that was my first thought also... but then i realized i couldn't
just ignore the excess cpus in that function, but would need to go back
and fixup all the cpu_present, cpu_online, etc maps (and any assoc data
structs, if any), and it just didn't seem worth it in the 2.6.18* 
kernels at least. Would have been easier to do if the vcpu setup 
function returned a value instead of being void. 

The 2.6.18 kernel will BUG_ON() somewhere right now with excess
cpus anyways, so it is not a regression in that sense :)... 

thanks,
Mukesh