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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] KVM: x86: Drop arbitraty KVM_SOFT_MAX_VCPUS
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Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/11/21 14:47, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS is used to get the "recommended" maximum number of
>> VCPUs and arm64/mips/riscv report num_online_cpus(). Powerpc reports
>> either num_online_cpus() or num_present_cpus(), s390 has multiple
>> constants depending on hardware features. On x86, KVM reports an
>> arbitrary value of '710' which is supposed to be the maximum tested
>> value but it's possible to test all KVM_MAX_VCPUS even when there are
>> less physical CPUs available.
>>
>> Drop the arbitrary '710' value and return num_online_cpus() on x86 as
>> well. The recommendation will match other architectures and will mean
>> 'no CPU overcommit'.
>>
>> For reference, QEMU only queries KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS to print a warning
>> when the requested vCPU number exceeds it. The static limit of '710'
>> is quite weird as smaller systems with just a few physical CPUs should
>> certainly "recommend" less.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
>
> Yes, this is a good idea. We cannot move it entirely to common code due
> to POWER's handling of secondary threads in hypervisors; still, this is
> as close as we can get to a common idea of what KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS means.
>

S390's idea is also different and while I don't understand at all
all these hardware features, KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS == KVM_CAP_MAX_VCPUS
(afaict). This was the first reason to keep KVM_CAP_NR_VCPUS handling in
arch specific code.

--
Vitaly

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