qemu-kvm/0015-globally-limit-the-maximum-number-of-CPUs.patch
Miroslav Rezanina 037e637fa3 * Thu Dec 16 2021 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 6.2.0-1
- Rebase to QEMU 6.2.0 [bz#2027697]
- Resolves: bz#2027697
  (Rebase to QEMU 6.2.0)
2021-12-16 02:33:21 -05:00

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From 354c9ce982e566ddb3c724a57252986dcb7c36db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:46:52 +0100
Subject: globally limit the maximum number of CPUs
We now globally limit the number of VCPUs.
Especially, there is no way one can specify more than
max_cpus VCPUs for a VM.
This allows us the restore the ppc max_cpus limitation to the upstream
default and minimize the ppc hack in kvm-all.c.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.com>
---
accel/kvm/kvm-all.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
index eecd8031cf..8f2a53438f 100644
--- a/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
+++ b/accel/kvm/kvm-all.c
@@ -2423,6 +2423,18 @@ static int kvm_init(MachineState *ms)
soft_vcpus_limit = kvm_recommended_vcpus(s);
hard_vcpus_limit = kvm_max_vcpus(s);
+#ifdef HOST_PPC64
+ /*
+ * On POWER, the kernel advertises a soft limit based on the
+ * number of CPU threads on the host. We want to allow exceeding
+ * this for testing purposes, so we don't want to set hard limit
+ * to soft limit as on x86.
+ */
+#else
+ /* RHEL doesn't support nr_vcpus > soft_vcpus_limit */
+ hard_vcpus_limit = soft_vcpus_limit;
+#endif
+
while (nc->name) {
if (nc->num > soft_vcpus_limit) {
warn_report("Number of %s cpus requested (%d) exceeds "
--
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