On 10/08/2017 12:08, Lan Tianyu wrote: > Intel Xeon phi chip will support 352 logical threads. For HPC > usage case, it will create a huge VM with vcpus number as same as host > cpus. This patch is to increase max vcpu number to 352.
Even without Xeon Phi, a 24-core, 8-socket system (E7-8890 v4 for example) will have 384 physical CPUs. 288 was the biggest we could test at the time, but now that the 256 vCPU barrier has been broken I agree with going straight to 512. Paolo