Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2] PPC: smp: autodetect numbers of threads per core

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 01/10/2014 08:00 AM, Mike Day wrote:
> 
> Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>          /* compute missing values, prefer sockets over cores over threads */
>>          if (cpus == 0 || sockets == 0) {
>>              sockets = sockets > 0 ? sockets : 1;
>>              cores = cores > 0 ? cores : 1;
>> -            threads = threads > 0 ? threads : 1;
>> +            if (threads_max) {
>> +                if (threads > 0) {
>> +                    fprintf(stderr, "Use either threads or threads_max\n");
>> +                    exit(1);
> 
> If you went ahead with the threads="max" string option you wouldn't need
> to check here for mutual excusivity and the user wouldn't need to worry
> about an extra command options.


Is this the only concern and the rest is fine and can go to upstream? If
so, I'll fix it and repost.


>> +                }
>> +                threads = smp_threads > 0 ? smp_threads : 1;
>> +            } else {
>> +                threads = threads > 0 ? threads : 1;
>> +            }
>>              if (cpus == 0) {
>>                  cpus = cores * threads * sockets;
>>              }
> 


-- 
Alexey