On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:37:03AM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 06:24:30PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > Prevent guests from booting with CPU topologies that have partially > > filled CPU cores or can result in partially filled CPU cores after > > CPU hotplug like > > > > -smp 15,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=4,maxcpus=16 or > > -smp 15,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=4,maxcpus=17. > > > > Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bhar...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> > > I may have missed a bit of the discussion leading up to this. What > was the rationale for still allowing partially filled sockets (and > otherwise doing things at core rather than socket level?)
This is generic parsing code. I don't remember an explicit discussion around allowing or dis-allowing paritialy filled sockets. I thought disallowing partially filled cores from generic smp parsing code would be an acceptable first step for all archs. Regards, Bharata.
