A question about dlpar add cpu failed

[Nathan Lynch]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 14:40 +0800, Zhao Yu Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> I meet a failed while trying to add cpu to a partition dynamicly. I am
> not sure what's wrong. Thanks.

...

> A add 1 procs:
> hscroot at hmc6lte:~> chhwres -m fsp-pear -d 5 -r proc -o a -p "pearlp3
> RH" --procs 1
> HSCL145F Attempted to allocate processing units less than the minimum
> capacity allowed with the specified virtual processor setting.
> 
> B add 10 procs:
> hscroot at hmc6lte:~> chhwres -m fsp-pear -d 5 -r proc -o a -p "pearlp3
> RH" --procs 10
> Your request exceeds the profile's maximum virtual processor limit.
> You can add or move up to 7 virtual processors. Please retry the
> operation.
> 
> C add 2 procs:
> hscroot at hmc6lte:~> chhwres -m fsp-pear -d 5 -r proc -o a -p "pearlp3
> RH" --procs 2
> HSCL145F Attempted to allocate processing units less than the minimum
> capacity allowed with the specified virtual processor setting.

All of these seem to indicate HMC or platform firmware issues (or
operator error), the OS and programs on the partition are not even
involved at this point.

Nathan