Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] ppc/pnv: fix cores per chip for multiple cpus

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:37:39PM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> >> well, it would be good to be able to define chips with different
> >> numbers of cpus. That is something will we want to do for sure.
> > 
> > You mean multiple chips in a single system with non-uniform numbers of
> > cores?  Are there really such systems in the wild?
> > 
> 
> When CPU fail for some reason, yes. They are garded by the FW and next
> boot the system will have different numbers of CPUs on its chip.

Ok, but you can model that with max_cpus the full potential number,
then just don't have all of them on initially.  The basic topology
remains uniform.

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