KVM: x86: increase recommended max vcpus to 160

2012-02-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti

Increase recommended max vcpus from 64 to 160 (tested internally
at Red Hat).

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti mtosa...@redhat.com

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 4610166..782d973 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 #include asm/msr-index.h
 
 #define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 254
-#define KVM_SOFT_MAX_VCPUS 64
+#define KVM_SOFT_MAX_VCPUS 160
 #define KVM_MEMORY_SLOTS 32
 /* memory slots that does not exposed to userspace */
 #define KVM_PRIVATE_MEM_SLOTS 4

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Re: KVM: x86: increase recommended max vcpus to 160

2012-02-03 Thread Sasha Levin
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 12:28 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
 Increase recommended max vcpus from 64 to 160 (tested internally
 at Red Hat).
 
 Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti mtosa...@redhat.com

Awesome!

Would it be possible to share the benchmarks?

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Re: KVM: x86: increase recommended max vcpus to 160

2012-02-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
 On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 12:28 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
  Increase recommended max vcpus from 64 to 160 (tested internally
  at Red Hat).
  
  Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti mtosa...@redhat.com
 
 Awesome!
 
 Would it be possible to share the benchmarks?

Not sure. Shak?

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Re: KVM: x86: increase recommended max vcpus to 160

2012-02-03 Thread shak

On 02/03/2012 10:55 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
   

On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 12:28 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
 

Increase recommended max vcpus from 64 to 160 (tested internally
at Red Hat).

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosattimtosa...@redhat.com
   

Awesome!

Would it be possible to share the benchmarks?
 

Not sure. Shak?

   
We have been using Linpack NxN but always hit a HW barriers even on bare 
metal


http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/running-the-hpl-benchmark-over-intel-mpi/?wapkw=(LINPACK+MPI)
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-math-kernel-library-linpack-download

Shak


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