From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>,
Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
richard.henderson@linaro.org, eduardo@habkost.net,
marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com, imammedo@redhat.com,
jusual@redhat.com, jon.grimm@amd.com, santosh.Shukla@amd.com,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pc: q35: Bump max_cpus to 1024
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2023 07:09:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230601070912-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZHhwOrfXMjjOmcAK@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:17:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:45AM +0100, Joao Martins wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 31/05/2023 23:51, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
> > > Since KVM_MAX_VCPUS is currently defined to 1024 for x86 as shown in
> > > arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h, update QEMU limits to the same number.
> > >
> > > In case KVM could not support the specified number of vcpus, QEMU would
> > > return the following error message:
> > >
> > > qemu-system-x86_64: kvm_init_vcpu: kvm_get_vcpu failed (xxx): Invalid argument
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes from V1:
> > > (https://lore.kernel.org/all/YnkDGsIi1vFvXmiP@redhat.com/T/)
> > > * Bump from 512 to KVM_MAX_VCPUS (per Igor's suggestion)
> > >
> > > Note:
> > > From the last discussion, Daniel mentioned that SMBIO 2.1 tables might
> > > cause overflow at approx 720 CPUs, and it might require using the
> > > SMBIO 3.0 entry point. Also, we might need to change the default for
> > > the x86 machine type to SMBIO 3.0. However, I do not know the status
> > > of this.
> > >
> > I suspect smbios 3.0 (64-bit entry point) is already supported.
> >
> > With current qemu and all the smbios fixes in the last cycle, perhaps this is
> > mainly just setting smbios_entry_point_type to SMBIOS_ENTRY_POINT_TYPE_64 if
> > MachineState::smp::max_cpus is bigger than 720 (e.g. in pc_q35_init()?)
>
> The need for the 64-bit entry point depends on a combination of RAM config
> and CPU count. IMHO we need to unconditionally switch the latest machine
> types to use the 64-bit entry point by default, rather than trying to infer
> some special condition to dynamically change on the fly.
Yes, makes sense.
> Before doing that we need confirmation that our firmware builds in qemu.git
> (SeaBIOS and EDK2) will be happy with the 64-bit EP. I suspect they should
> be fine by now, but I've CC'd Gerd to confirm.
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-01 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-31 22:51 [PATCH v2] pc: q35: Bump max_cpus to 1024 Suravee Suthikulpanit
2023-06-01 10:09 ` Joao Martins
2023-06-01 10:17 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-06-01 11:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2023-06-01 11:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2023-06-01 21:54 ` Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2023-06-02 8:43 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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2022-11-18 8:55 Dario Faggioli
2022-11-18 9:18 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-11-18 9:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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