[PATCH] ARM: KVM: drop arbitrary limitation to 4 CPU VMs

Peter Maydell peter.maydell at linaro.org
Tue Oct 8 22:15:03 EDT 2013


On 9 October 2013 02:17, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com> wrote:
> It appears we have an arbitrary limitation where we refuse to
> create more than 4 virtual A15 in a single VM.
>
> This limitation doesn't make much sense (the number 4 probably
> comes from the maximum number of CPUs in a A15 cluster, but
> KVM doesn't have any notion of cluster)

"Don't allow configurations that can't exist in hardware" makes
sense as a restriction to me... QEMU will also enforce the 4-cpu
limit.

-- PMM



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