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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] ppc: Change Power9 compat table to suppo
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David Gibson |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] ppc: Change Power9 compat table to support at most 8 threads/core |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:26:32 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) |
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 05:23:48PM -0200, Jose Ricardo Ziviani wrote:
> Increases the max smt mode to 8 for Power9. That's because KVM supports
> smt emulation in this platform so QEMU should allow users to use it as
> well.
>
> Today if we try to pass -smp ...,threads=8, QEMU will silently truncate
> it to smt4 mode and may cause a crash if we try to perform a cpu
> hotplug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jose Ricardo Ziviani <address@hidden>
Applied, with the addition of a comment explaining why we want this
despite the hardware limit.
> ---
> target/ppc/compat.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/target/ppc/compat.c b/target/ppc/compat.c
> index ad8f93c064..d1770cdc6f 100644
> --- a/target/ppc/compat.c
> +++ b/target/ppc/compat.c
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ static const CompatInfo compat_table[] = {
> .pvr = CPU_POWERPC_LOGICAL_3_00,
> .pcr = PCR_COMPAT_3_00,
> .pcr_level = PCR_COMPAT_3_00,
> - .max_threads = 4,
> + .max_threads = 8,
> },
> };
>
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