On 15 August 2016 at 11:46, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > I only ran up to -smp 8 as that is as > much as the -m virt model will actually accept.
FWIW, -machine gic-version=3 should allow you more than 8 cores. > I have noticed some instability in the test though for high -smp values > which caused the test runners timeout protection to kick in. These look > like guest hangs and maybe barrier related (store-after-load re-ordering > can happen). I plan to apply the barrier patches and see if this > improves the stability of the tests. > From my point of view I think we are looking pretty good for merging but > I would like to get input from the TCG maintainers who are the ones that > will need to accept the work into their tree. Your note above about instability and hangs is the main thing that makes me nervous about merging... thanks -- PMM
