Re: [PATCH v4 06/17] PCI: add SIOV and IMS capability detection

[Raj, Ashok]

Hi David

I did't follow the support for 32768 CPUs in guest without IR support.

Can you tell me how that is done?

On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 03:25:57PM -0800, Ashok Raj wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 06:34:55PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > 
> > > When we do interrupt remapping support in guest which would be required 
> > > if we support x2apic in guest, I think this is something we should look into more 
> > > carefully to make this work.
> > 
> > No, interrupt remapping is not required for X2APIC in guests
> > 
> > They can have X2APIC and up to 32768 CPUs without needing interrupt
> 
> How is this made available today without interrupt remapping? 
> 
> I thought without IR, the destination ID is still limited to only 8 bits?
> 
> On native, even if you have less than 255 cpu's but the APICID are sparsly 
> distributed due to platform rules, the x2apic id could be more than 8 bits. 
> Which is why the spec requires IR when x2apic is enabled.
> 
> > remapping at all. Only if they want more than 32768 vCPUs, or to do
> > nested virtualisation and actually remap for the benefit of *their*
> > (L2+) guests would they need IR.