linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number of vcpus per guest

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Message-ID: <8735sh2fr7.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:21:00 +0200
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number
 of vcpus per guest

Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com> writes:

> On 14.07.21 13:45, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd vote for introducing a 'ratio' parameter then so
>> generally users will only have to set 'kvm.max_vcpus'.
>
> Okay.
>
> Default '4' then? Or '2 ^ (topology_levels - 2)' (assuming a
> topology_level of 3 on Intel: thread/core/socket and 4 on EPYC:
> thread/core/package/socket).

I'd suggest we default to '4' for both Intel and AMD as we haven't given
up completely on cross-vendor VMs (running AMD VMs on Intel CPUs and
vice versa). It would be great to leave a comment where the number comes
from of course.

-- 
Vitaly