Hi Michael,
On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 05:17:29AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:17:29 -0400
> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] tests: bios-tables-test: Add test for smbios
> type4 thread count2
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0800, Zhao Liu wrote:
> > From: Zhao Liu <zhao1....@intel.com>
> >
> > This tests the commit 7298fd7de5551 ("hw/smbios: Fix thread count in
> > type4").
> >
> > In smbios_build_type_4_table() (hw/smbios/smbios.c), if the number of
> > threads in the socket is more than 255, then smbios type4 table encodes
> > threads per socket into the thread count2 field.
> >
> > So for the topology in this case, there're the following considerations:
> > 1. threads per socket should be more than 255 to ensure we could cover
> > the thread count2 field.
> > 2. The original bug was that threads per socket was miscalculated, so
> > now we should configure as many topology levels as possible (mutiple
> > sockets & dies, no module since x86 hasn't supported it) to cover
> > more general topology scenarios, to ensure that the threads per
> > socket encoded in the thread count2 field is correct.
> > 3. For the more general topology, we should also add "cpus" (presented
> > threads for machine) and "maxcpus" (total threads for machine) to
> > make sure that configuring unpluged CPUs in smp (cpus < maxcpus)
> > does not affect the correctness of threads per socket for thread
> > count2 field.
> >
> > Based on these considerations, select the topology as the follow:
> >
> > -smp cpus=210,maxcpus=520,sockets=2,dies=2,cores=65,threads=2
> >
> > The expected thread count2 = threads per socket = threads (2)
> > * cores (65) * dies (2) = 260.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1....@intel.com>
>
> There's a problem here: not all hosts support such high
> number of vCPUs.
> Number of hotpluggable cpus requested (520) exceeds the maximum cpus
> supported by KVM (288)
> socket_accept failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
> **
>
> Dropped for now pls come up with a solution.
I'll drop multiple sockets/dies for this case.
The previsou thread count test has already covered the complex topology
level case so that for thread count2 we can not configure so many
sockets/dies, just check that there are more than 255 threads in a
socket.
I'll refresh a new version.
Regards,
Zhao
>
>
> > ---
> > Changes since v1:
> > * Dropped the extra variable: uint64_t thread_count2_addr. (Igor)
> > * Added description of the consideration for topology selection of this
> > case in commit message. (Igor)
> > ---
> > tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c b/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
> > index f8e3e349e09f..58119d8979c6 100644
> > --- a/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
> > +++ b/tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c
> > @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ typedef struct {
> > uint8_t smbios_core_count;
> > uint16_t smbios_core_count2;
> > uint8_t smbios_thread_count;
> > + uint16_t smbios_thread_count2;
> > uint8_t *required_struct_types;
> > int required_struct_types_len;
> > int type4_count;
> > @@ -644,6 +645,7 @@ static void smbios_cpu_test(test_data *data, uint32_t
> > addr,
> > uint8_t thread_count, expected_thread_count =
> > data->smbios_thread_count;
> > uint16_t speed, expected_speed[2];
> > uint16_t core_count2, expected_core_count2 = data->smbios_core_count2;
> > + uint16_t thread_count2, expected_thread_count2 =
> > data->smbios_thread_count2;
> > int offset[2];
> > int i;
> >
> > @@ -680,6 +682,15 @@ static void smbios_cpu_test(test_data *data, uint32_t
> > addr,
> > if (expected_core_count == 0xFF && expected_core_count2) {
> > g_assert_cmpuint(core_count2, ==, expected_core_count2);
> > }
> > +
> > + thread_count2 = qtest_readw(data->qts,
> > + addr + offsetof(struct smbios_type_4,
> > + thread_count2));
> > +
> > + /* Thread Count has reached its limit, checking Thread Count 2 */
> > + if (expected_thread_count == 0xFF && expected_thread_count2) {
> > + g_assert_cmpuint(thread_count2, ==, expected_thread_count2);
> > + }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > @@ -1050,6 +1061,7 @@ static void test_acpi_q35_tcg_thread_count(void)
> > .required_struct_types = base_required_struct_types,
> > .required_struct_types_len =
> > ARRAY_SIZE(base_required_struct_types),
> > .smbios_thread_count = 27,
> > + .smbios_thread_count2 = 27,
> > };
> >
> > test_acpi_one("-machine smbios-entry-point-type=64 "
> > @@ -1058,6 +1070,23 @@ static void test_acpi_q35_tcg_thread_count(void)
> > free_test_data(&data);
> > }
> >
> > +static void test_acpi_q35_tcg_thread_count2(void)
> > +{
> > + test_data data = {
> > + .machine = MACHINE_Q35,
> > + .variant = ".thread-count2",
> > + .required_struct_types = base_required_struct_types,
> > + .required_struct_types_len =
> > ARRAY_SIZE(base_required_struct_types),
> > + .smbios_thread_count = 0xFF,
> > + .smbios_thread_count2 = 260,
> > + };
> > +
> > + test_acpi_one("-machine smbios-entry-point-type=64 "
> > + "-smp
> > cpus=210,maxcpus=520,sockets=2,dies=2,cores=65,threads=2",
> > + &data);
> > + free_test_data(&data);
> > +}
> > +
> > static void test_acpi_q35_tcg_bridge(void)
> > {
> > test_data data = {};
> > @@ -2216,6 +2245,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > test_acpi_q35_tcg_core_count2);
> > qtest_add_func("acpi/q35/thread-count",
> > test_acpi_q35_tcg_thread_count);
> > + qtest_add_func("acpi/q35/thread-count2",
> > + test_acpi_q35_tcg_thread_count2);
> > }
> > if (qtest_has_device("virtio-iommu-pci")) {
> > qtest_add_func("acpi/q35/viot", test_acpi_q35_viot);
> > --
> > 2.34.1
>
