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On 01/19/2011 10:39 AM, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> I have tested quite extensively with booting a 16-vcpu guest (on a 16-pcpu host)
> and running kernel compine (with 32-threads). Without this patch, I had
> difficulty booting/shutting-down successfully (it would hang mid-way).

Sounds good.  But I like to test with "make -j 100-200" to really give
things a workout.

    J