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Re: [PATCH] xen/arm: Allow setting the number of CPUs to activate at runtime


  • To: Michal Orzel <Michal.Orzel@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Bertrand Marquis <Bertrand.Marquis@xxxxxxx>
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  • Thread-topic: [PATCH] xen/arm: Allow setting the number of CPUs to activate at runtime

Hi Michal,

> On 23 May 2022, at 10:13, Michal Orzel <Michal.Orzel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Introduce a command line parameter "maxcpus" on Arm to allow adjusting
> the number of CPUs to activate. Currently the limit is defined by the
> config option CONFIG_NR_CPUS. Such parameter already exists on x86.
> 
> Define a parameter "maxcpus" and a corresponding static variable
> max_cpus in Arm smpboot.c. Modify function smp_get_max_cpus to take
> max_cpus as a limit and to return proper unsigned int instead of int.
> 
> Take the opportunity to remove redundant variable cpus from start_xen
> function and to directly assign the return value from smp_get_max_cpus
> to nr_cpu_ids (global variable in Xen used to store the number of CPUs
> actually activated).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Orzel <michal.orzel@xxxxxxx>

With the warning added in the documentation (which is ok to do on commit):

Reviewed-by: Bertrand Marquis <bertrand.marquis@xxxxxxx>

Cheers
Bertrand




 


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