Alexey Kardashevskiy <a...@ozlabs.ru> writes: > On 01/10/2014 10:40 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> > >> What if we make the max thread count a property of our cpu class? The >> we > can add a threads=max option which will be identical between kvm and tcg. > > > You lost me here :) > Right now the sequence is: > 1. smp_parse > 2. config_accelerator > 3. machine_init > > I proposed > 1. config_accelerator - reads max threads from KVM (and initializes "host" > type) > 2. smp_parse - does the parsing using smp_threads tweaked in 1) > 3. machine_init - creates CPUs which may or may be not "host".
The patch as it its now is very simple and well-contained. I wonder how much it would expand if we added a max thread count to the cpu class. It seems like the need for a max thread count is idiomatic to powerpc. Mike -- Mike Day | "Endurance is a Virtue"
