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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Enable SMP on VTI domain.


  • To: "Tristan Gingold" <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:25:15 +0800
  • Delivery-date: Wed, 31 May 2006 05:25:39 -0700
  • List-id: Discussion of the ia64 port of Xen <xen-ia64-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: AcaEq8B2DvkTC7AJR32u2SDkLyaJhAAARv2w
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Enable SMP on VTI domain.

>From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx]
>Sent: 2006年5月31日 20:19
>To: Xu, Anthony; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Enable SMP on VTI domain.
>
>Le Mercredi 31 Mai 2006 14:04, Xu, Anthony a écrit :
>> From: Tristan Gingold
>>
>> >Sent: 2006年5月31日 20:04
>> >To: Xu, Anthony; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Enable SMP on VTI domain.
>> >
>> >Le Mercredi 31 Mai 2006 13:43, Xu, Anthony a écrit :
>> >> From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx]
>> >
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >> >> Another concern is,
>> >> >> If SMP guest is running on a UP platform, vcpus may have same vcpuid.
>> >> >
>> >> >Why ?  IMHO this can never happen.
>> >>
>> >> There are 4 LP on my box, if I want to boot a domU with 6 vcpus,
>> >> Can this domU boot?
>> >
>> >[ I have never tried, but here is my understanding:]
>> >Sure.  You can create more vcpus than existing cpus.  Of course, you can't
>> > run 6 vcpus simultaneously on 4 cpus!
>>
>> If the lid of vcpus is extracted from machine lid, there are at least two
>> vcpus whose lids are same, which may make guest OS confused.
>lid are paravirtualized except for dom0 (currently, this has to be revisited).
>
>I think there is a misunderstanding somewhere, because some questions sound
>too strange.
>
>My (small) comment was simple:
>On Xen/VTI, GFW set lid and Xen has to build a map from lid to vcpuid.
>I just think it should be simpler to modify GFW so that lid = vcpuid.
>
That is exactly what I implemented.

>Tristan.

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