On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 04:49:44PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 08:35:12AM -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > > AFAICT there's no x86_64 (or ppc64, or s390x, or ...) machine type > > > > that can use CPU clusters. > > > > > > I believe x86 should be gaining CPU cluster support in QEMU, though > > > the current patch is suggesting to call them 'modules' when configuring > > > the guest, just to absolutely maximise confusion when linux calls > > > them 'clusters'. > > > > Lovely. Any chance we're still in time to prevent that specific > > trainwreck from happening? > > I'm trying to discourage it, though their latest reply actually > indicates they want to report 'clusters' and 'modules' as distinct > concepts, so we've got even more to do on libvirt side :-) > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-02/msg00052.html It doesn't sound quite as bad then. Better than overloading an existing term with new meaning, that's for sure. The whole CPU topology hierarchy has gotten way beyond silly a long time ago anyway :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
