linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max number of vcpus per guest

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Message-ID: <YZZyEgvYLRFHh2iz@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:32:34 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.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>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] x86/kvm: add boot parameter for setting max
 number of vcpus per guest

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 18.11.21 16:05, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > the partner isn't running a vanilla distro build and could set it as they see fit.
> 
> And here you are wrong. They'd like to use standard SUSE Linux (SLE).

Huh.  As in, completely off-the-shelf kernel binaries without any tweaks to the
config?