Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2] PPC: smp: autodetect numbers of threads per core

[Alexander Graf]

On 10.01.2014, at 15:21, Mike Day <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 01/11/2014 01:00 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
>>> Can't we determine the number of "default threads" at a common place,
>>> preferably derived from cpu type?
>> 
>> We can do anything. I asked how exactly as I really (really) do not
>> understand the details.
>> 
> 
> Are you suggesting we create a dictionary with all the cpu type
> information stored in it
> (stepping, cores, threads, memory channels, caches) that we need to
> keep updated?

We can always talk in extremes :). Today we have a dictionary of core types in 
QEMU. If a certain core type comes with a specific number of threads, that's a 
property of the core, no?


Alex