[PATCH 3/3] aarch64: kvm: introduce CONFIG_KVM_MAX_VCPUS
Gleb Natapov
gleb at redhat.com
Wed Sep 18 02:21:55 EDT 2013
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:34:28PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:10:56PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > Take CONFIG_KVM_MAX_VCPUS from arm32, but set the default to 8.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 7 ++++++-
> > arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > index 0859a4ddd1e7d..d1af8c49a5ca4 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> > @@ -26,7 +26,12 @@
> > #include <asm/kvm_asm.h>
> > #include <asm/kvm_mmio.h>
> >
> > -#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 4
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
> > +#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS CONFIG_KVM_MAX_VCPUS
> > +#else
> > +#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 0
> > +#endif
> > +
> > #define KVM_USER_MEM_SLOTS 32
> > #define KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS 4
> > #define KVM_COALESCED_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET 1
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
> > index 21e90820bd23c..c9924b02e84f7 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
> > @@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ config KVM_ARM_HOST
> > ---help---
> > Provides host support for ARM processors.
> >
> > +config KVM_MAX_VCPUS
> > + int "Number maximum supported virtual CPUs per VM"
> > + depends on KVM_ARM_HOST
> > + default 8
>
> That data structure gets really big with 8 max vcpus. I think we should
> keep this at 4 for now, a quad-core VM is quite reasonable for now.
>
Which data structure? vgic? IIRC with 8 vcpus it will be something like
500 bytes bigger then it is now.
--
Gleb.
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