On 26.03.2020 10:45, Juergen Gross wrote: > Today the maximum number of event channels for a guest is defaulting > to 1023. For large guests with lots of vcpus this is not enough, as > e.g. the Linux kernel uses 7 event channels per vcpu, limiting the > guest to about 140 vcpus.
I don't think any particular guest OS should "dictate" the default here. What if another OS (or even a future version of Linux) requires more than 8? And why would the value depend on number of vCPU-s but not number and kind of virtual devices? Jan