Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement dynamic micro-threading on POWER8

2015-06-02 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 03:17:20PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: This builds on the ability to run more than one vcore on a physical core by using the micro-threading (split-core) modes of the POWER8 chip. Previously, only vcores from the same VM could be run together, and (on POWER8) only if

[PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement dynamic micro-threading on POWER8

2015-05-27 Thread Paul Mackerras
This builds on the ability to run more than one vcore on a physical core by using the micro-threading (split-core) modes of the POWER8 chip. Previously, only vcores from the same VM could be run together, and (on POWER8) only if they had just one thread per core. With the ability to split the