Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: warns users when CPU threads>1 for AMD CPUs

2014-10-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 10/21/2014 05:00 PM, Wei Huang wrote: > No AMD CPUs support hyperthreading. When users select threads>1 in > -smp option, QEMU fixes it by adjusting CPUID__0001_EBX and > CPUID_8000_0008_ECX based on inputs (sockets, cores, threads); > so guest VM can boot correctly. However it is still bett

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: warns users when CPU threads>1 for AMD CPUs

2014-10-21 Thread Eduardo Habkost
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:00:45AM -0400, Wei Huang wrote: > No AMD CPUs support hyperthreading. When users select threads>1 in > -smp option, QEMU fixes it by adjusting CPUID__0001_EBX and > CPUID_8000_0008_ECX based on inputs (sockets, cores, threads); > so guest VM can boot correctly. Howeve

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: warns users when CPU threads>1 for AMD CPUs

2014-10-21 Thread Wei Huang
No AMD CPUs support hyperthreading. When users select threads>1 in -smp option, QEMU fixes it by adjusting CPUID__0001_EBX and CPUID_8000_0008_ECX based on inputs (sockets, cores, threads); so guest VM can boot correctly. However it is still better to gives users a warning when such case happen