[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: increase KVMPPC_NR_LPIDS on POWER8 and POWER9

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Thu Jul 23 16:20:16 AEST 2020


On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 01:57:14PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> POWER8 and POWER9 have 12-bit LPIDs. Change LPID_RSVD to support up to
> (4096 - 2) guests on these processors. POWER7 is kept the same with a
> limitation of (1024 - 2), but it might be time to drop KVM support for
> POWER7.
> 
> Tested with 2048 guests * 4 vCPUs on a witherspoon system with 512G
> RAM and a bit of swap.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org>

Thanks, patch applied to my kvm-ppc-next branch.

Paul.


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