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Message-Id: <20230823193842.2544394-1-kyle.meyer@hpe.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 14:38:43 -0500
From: Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@....com>
To: seanjc@...gle.com, pbonzini@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, dave.hansen@...el.com,
x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vkuznets@...hat.com,
dmatlack@...gle.com
Cc: russ.anderson@....com, dimitri.sivanich@....com,
steve.wahl@....com, Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@....com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] KVM: x86: Add CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS
Add a Kconfig entry to set the maximum number of vCPUs per KVM guest and
set the default value to 4096 when MAXSMP is enabled.
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@....com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 3bc146dfd38d..536317812b52 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
#define __KVM_HAVE_ARCH_VCPU_DEBUGFS
-#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 1024
+#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS CONFIG_KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS
/*
* In x86, the VCPU ID corresponds to the APIC ID, and APIC IDs
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
index 89ca7f4c1464..e730e8255e22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/Kconfig
@@ -141,4 +141,15 @@ config KVM_XEN
config KVM_EXTERNAL_WRITE_TRACKING
bool
+config KVM_MAX_NR_VCPUS
+ int "Maximum number of vCPUs per KVM guest"
+ depends on KVM
+ range 1024 4096
+ default 4096 if MAXSMP
+ default 1024
+ help
+ Set the maximum number of vCPUs per KVM guest. Larger values will increase
+ the memory footprint of each KVM guest, regardless of how many vCPUs are
+ configured.
+
endif # VIRTUALIZATION
--
2.26.2
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