Re: Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2021-02-14 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
-- Start of PGP signed section. > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:06:52PM +, Simon Connah wrote: > > I was reading the bhyve man page and noticed that it said the maximum number > > of virtual CPUs is limited to 16. With AMD Epyc being out with 32 cores and > > 64 threads per CPU and being able to h

Re: Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2021-02-14 Thread Shawn Webb
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:06:52PM +, Simon Connah wrote: > I was reading the bhyve man page and noticed that it said the maximum number > of virtual CPUs is limited to 16. With AMD Epyc being out with 32 cores and > 64 threads per CPU and being able to have 2 of them in one system this > numbe

Re: Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2018-11-28 Thread Simon Connah
On 27/11/2018 23:06, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I was reading the bhyve man page and noticed that it said the maximum number of virtual CPUs is limited to 16. With AMD Epyc being out with 32 cores and 64 threads per CPU and being able to have 2 of them in one system this number seems rather low by m

Re: Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2018-11-27 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> I was reading the bhyve man page and noticed that it said the maximum > number of virtual CPUs is limited to 16. With AMD Epyc being out with 32 > cores and 64 threads per CPU and being able to have 2 of them in one > system this number seems rather low by modern standards. So you can run 4 x

Re: Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2018-11-27 Thread Trent Thompson
Simon, It is possible to go above that limit if you're willing to recompile the VMM kernel module. There has been some discussion as to why this was set to 16 recently ( https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-virtualization/2018-November/006939.html ). Some may experience problems at higher

Any plans to increase the maximum number of virtual CPUs above 16?

2018-11-27 Thread Simon Connah
I was reading the bhyve man page and noticed that it said the maximum number of virtual CPUs is limited to 16. With AMD Epyc being out with 32 cores and 64 threads per CPU and being able to have 2 of them in one system this number seems rather low by modern standards. Are there any plans to in