Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V6 00/10] Support more than 8 vcpus on arm64 with GICv3

2015-06-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-06-05 at 15:37 +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > On 05/06/15 15:08, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 20:56 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: > >> From: Chen Baozi > >> > >> Currently the number of vcpus on arm64 with GICv3 is limited up to 8 due > >> to the fixed size of redistributor

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V6 00/10] Support more than 8 vcpus on arm64 with GICv3

2015-06-05 Thread Julien Grall
On 05/06/15 15:08, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 20:56 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: >> From: Chen Baozi >> >> Currently the number of vcpus on arm64 with GICv3 is limited up to 8 due >> to the fixed size of redistributor mmio region. > > Are we talking about only guests here or are host

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V6 00/10] Support more than 8 vcpus on arm64 with GICv3

2015-06-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 20:56 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: > To create a guest up to 128 vCPUs, which is the maxium number that > GIC-500 Is 128 also, as it happens, the limit before cpumask_t needs to be dynamically allocate? (I've been reading xen/include/xen/cpumask.h) I'm wondering how much I shoul

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V6 00/10] Support more than 8 vcpus on arm64 with GICv3

2015-06-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 20:56 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote: > From: Chen Baozi > > Currently the number of vcpus on arm64 with GICv3 is limited up to 8 due > to the fixed size of redistributor mmio region. Are we talking about only guests here or are hosts impacted too somehow? > Increasing the size

[Xen-devel] [PATCH V6 00/10] Support more than 8 vcpus on arm64 with GICv3

2015-06-01 Thread Chen Baozi
From: Chen Baozi Currently the number of vcpus on arm64 with GICv3 is limited up to 8 due to the fixed size of redistributor mmio region. Increasing the size makes the number expand to 16 because of AFF0 restriction on GICv3. To create a guest up to 128 vCPUs, which is the maxium number that GIC-