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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:40:53 +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,
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Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@...hat.com>
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 15:21, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thinking more about it I believe it would be better to make the
> parameter something like "additional vcpu-id bits" with a default of
> topology_levels - 2 (cross-vendor VMs are so special that I think the
> need to specify another value explicitly in this case is acceptable).
>
> Reasons are:
>
> - the ability to specify factor values not being a power of 2 is weird
> - just specifying the additional number of bits would lead to compatible
> behavior (e.g. a max vcpu-id of 1023 with max_vcpus being 288 and the
> default value of 1)
> - the max vcpu-id should (normally) be 2^n - 1
Sounds good to me!
Also, there's an ongoing work to raise the default KVM_MAX_VCPUS number
by Eduardo (Cc):
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210831204535.1594297-1-ehabkost@redhat.com/
It would be great if you could unify your efforts)
--
Vitaly
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