[Qemu-devel] Re: [patch 0/2] QEMU maxcpus support

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/23/2009 01:00 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch set adds the -maxcpus argument to QEMU and provides the
> needed patches to the BOCHS patch queue to make the BIOS use it.
>
> Specifying -maxcpus allows the user to cap the limit of possibly cpus
> of the system, as opposed to -smp which specifies the number of
> running cpus at startup. This allows us to build BIOS tables
> accordingly when trying to scale up in size, and it also allows for
> the BIOS to build smaller tables when not needed.
>
> I am going to submit a set of patches directly for BOCHS as well
> covering the BIOS part, but I am still waiting for my bochs-developers
> subscription to be enabled.
>
> Avi asked me to post this both for QEMU and the BIOS part for BOCHS.
>    

I should have said this at your previous post, but it only occurred to 
me now:  we could have -smp 4,maxcpus=65536 instead of a new parameter.

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