Re: [PATCH 2/3] arm32: kvm: rename CONFIG_KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Mon Sep 16 2013 - 04:33:11 EST


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 09:09:27AM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> On 15/09/13 10:30, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:10:55PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> >> Drop the _ARM_ part of the name. We can then introduce a config option
> >> like this to aarch64 and other arches using the same name - allowing
> >> grep to show them all. Also update the help text to describe the option
> >> more completely.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++--
> >> arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig | 8 ++++----
> >> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> >> index 7d22517d80711..c614d3eb176c6 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h
> >> @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
> >> #include <asm/fpstate.h>
> >> #include <kvm/arm_arch_timer.h>
> >>
> >> -#if defined(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS)
> >> -#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS CONFIG_KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS
> >> +#if defined(CONFIG_KVM_MAX_VCPUS)
> >> +#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS CONFIG_KVM_MAX_VCPUS
> >> #else
> >> #define KVM_MAX_VCPUS 0
> >> #endif
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
> >> index ebf5015508b52..de63bfccb3eb5 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig
> >> @@ -40,16 +40,16 @@ config KVM_ARM_HOST
> >> ---help---
> >> Provides host support for ARM processors.
> >>
> >> -config KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS
> >> +config KVM_MAX_VCPUS
> >> int "Number maximum supported virtual CPUs per VM"
> >> depends on KVM_ARM_HOST
> >> default 4
> >> help
> >> Static number of max supported virtual CPUs per VM.
> >>
> >> - If you choose a high number, the vcpu structures will be quite
> >> - large, so only choose a reasonable number that you expect to
> >> - actually use.
> > I do no see why on ARM vcpu structure size depends on KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS.
> > Can somebody point me to it.
>
> There's a number of indirections, but here you go:
> arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_host.h:#define KVM_MAX_VCPUS CONFIG_KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS
>
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h:#define VGIC_MAX_CPUS KVM_MAX_VCPUS
>
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h:#if (VGIC_MAX_CPUS > 8)
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h: } percpu[VGIC_MAX_CPUS];
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h: u32 percpu[VGIC_MAX_CPUS][VGIC_NR_PRIVATE_IRQS / 4];
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h: u8 irq_sgi_sources[VGIC_MAX_CPUS][VGIC_NR_SGIS];
> include/kvm/arm_vgic.h: struct vgic_bitmap irq_spi_target[VGIC_MAX_CPUS];
>
> Basically, the GIC emulation data structures are sized on the number of VCPUs
> (as well as the number of supported interrupts).
>
But vgic is per VM though, not per cpu as far as I can see, so the
overhead is also per VM, no? Is VGIC_MAX_CPUS limit architectural or
juts an implementation detail?

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Gleb.
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