We currently limit TCG guests to -smp 1 but now we have added some
aarch64 guests we can do better when running on x86_64 hardware.
Raise the limit for TCG guests when it is safe to do so.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
---
tests/vm/basevm.py | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tests/vm/basevm.py b/tests/vm/basevm.py
index 93859362606..dd96a6d4af6 100644
--- a/tests/vm/basevm.py
+++ b/tests/vm/basevm.py
@@ -553,6 +553,12 @@ def parse_args(vmcls):
def get_default_jobs():
if kvm_available(vmcls.arch):
return multiprocessing.cpu_count() // 2
+ elif os.uname().machine == "x86_64" and \
+ vmcls.arch in ["aarch64", "x86_64", "i386"]:
+ # MTTCG is available on these arches and we can allow more cores.
+ # But only up to a reasonable limit. User can always override
+ # these limits with --jobs.
+ return min(multiprocessing.cpu_count() // 2, 8)
else:
return 1
--
2.20.1
