Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Add KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS and KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS

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On 08.12.2011, at 03:55, Matt Evans wrote:

> PPC KVM lacks these two capabilities, and as such a userland system must assume
> a max of 4 VCPUs (following api.txt).  With these, a userland can determine
> a more realistic limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Alex: For when you're back in civilisation -- the kvmtool/PPC stuff will be
> limited to 4 VCPUs until the kernel returns something for these caps.
> 
> Cheers, Matt
> 
> arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c |   15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> index 7c7220c..3f7219d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/powerpc.c
> @@ -245,6 +245,21 @@ int kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension(long ext)
> 			r = 2;
> 		break;
> #endif
> +	case KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS:
> +		/*
> +		 * Recommending a number of CPUs is somewhat arbitrary; we return the number of present
> +		 * CPUs for -HV (since a host will have secondary threads "offline"), and for other KVM
> +		 * implementations just count online CPUs.
> +		 */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM_BOOK3S_64_HV
> +		r = num_present_cpus();
> +#else
> +		r = num_online_cpus();
> +#endif

That will essentially restrict us to not allow overcommitting when in the scope of a single VM. Is that what we want? You could easily run a 32-way guest on a 4-way host, even with _HV.

Maybe some really big number makes more sense here.

Alex

PS: Please always CC kvm@vger when talking about stuff that we want feedback from non-PPC folks on.

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