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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] pc: q35: x2APIC support in kvm_apic mo
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] pc: q35: x2APIC support in kvm_apic mode |
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Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:29:22 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:05:30PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>
> Changes since v3:
> - fix endianness issues when filling MADT/SRAT entries (Eduardo)
> - squash "acpi: cphp: support x2APIC entry in cpu._MAT" into
> "pc: acpi: x2APIC support for MADT table and _MAT method" (Eduardo)
> - keep assert() as it doesn't affect x2APIC cpus in bochs_bios_init()
> (Eduardo)
> - restore kvm_has_x2apic_api() and use it to avoid side-effects
> of kvm_enable_x2apic(). x2APIC API will be enabled by iommu
> if it's present or not enabled at all. (Radim)
> - add intel iommu example to error message (Eduardo)
>
> Changes since v2:
> - rebase on top of EIM fixes
> - drop kvm_has_x2apic_ids() and reuse kvm_enable_x2apic()
> from Radim's EIM fixes
> - fix hang on reboot in BIOS due to not updated 'etc/boot-cpus' fwcfg file
> after CPU hotplug
> - drop not used anymore pc_present_cpus_count() and incrementally count
> present VCPUs as they are added/removed at (un)plug callbacks time
>
> Changes since v1:
> - rebase on top of 2.7
> - drop add 2.8 machine and linux headers update patches
> - drop numa related patches (will post separately as unrelated)
> - change default mc->maxcpus only for q35
>
> Changes since RFC:
> - use new KVM_CAP_X2APIC_API to detect x2APIC IDs support
> - rebase on top of 2.7-rc1, since many deps were merged
> - fix etc/boot-cpus to account for -device provided cpus
> - include not yet merged _PXM fix as prereq
> - add 2.8 machine type and bump up maxcpus count since it
>
> Series extends current CPU/kvm_apic/Q35 machine
> code to support x2APIC and upto 288 VCPUs when QEMU
> is used with KVM's lapic.
>
> Due to FW_CFG_MAX_CPUS (which is actually apic_id_limit)
> being limited to uint16_t, the max possible APIC ID is
> limitted to 2^16 with this series but that should
> be sufficient for bumping VCPUs number for quite a while.
Not a problem, just curiosity - 2^16 gives us 65536, so where
is the 288 limit coming from ?
Regards,
Daniel
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/13] pc: q35: x2APIC support in kvm_apic mode,
Daniel P. Berrange <=