On 20.04.2011, at 08:31, David Gibson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:02:21PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 04/19/2011 02:44 PM, David Gibson wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 09:38:58AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>> On 19.04.2011, at 03:54, David Gibson wrote: >>>> >>>>> From: Anton Blanchard<an...@au1.ibm.com> >>>>> >>>>> The original pSeries machine was limited to 32 CPUs, more or less >>>>> arbitrarily. Particularly when we get SMT KVM guests it will be >>>>> pretty easy to exceed this. Therefore, raise the max number of CPUs >>>>> in a pseries machine guest to 256. >>>> Are the 256 limited by technical limits or arbitrary as well? :) >>> Still arbitrary, just bigger. >> >> Can't we set it to the real, technical limit then? > > There is no clear real, technical limit. It would depend on exactly > what generation of pSeries we're talking about, and be in the > thousands.
So I suppose we should set the max to the thousands then? Why limit it arbitrarily? Alex
