Re: [LINUX PATCH 2/2] xen/pvhvm: Support more than 32 VCPUs when migrating.

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Wed Apr 09 2014 - 06:21:30 EST


>>> On 09.04.14 at 12:15, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Apr 9, 2014 4:03 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> >>> On 08.04.14 at 19:25, <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > + /* Only Xen 4.5 and higher supports this. */
>> > + if (HYPERVISOR_vcpu_op(VCPUOP_is_up, smp_processor_id(), NULL) ==
> -ENOSYS)
>> > + vcpuops = false;
>>
>> Did you mean to say "for HVM guests" in the comment? And of
>> course the comment could quickly become stale if we backported
>> the Xen side change to e.g. 4.4.1.
>>
>
> Right. But I thought that features like that (new hypercalls) wasn't
> applicable for backporting?

It's not really a new hypercall, and fixing a problem, so I'd consider
it a candidate at least for 4.4.1.

Jan

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