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RE: [Xen-devel] only one CPU is detected when dom0 boots up

To: "Yu, Ping Y" <ping.y.yu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Ryan Harper" <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] only one CPU is detected when dom0 boots up
From: "Yu, Ping Y" <ping.y.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 07:22:02 +0800
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Zheng, Jeff" <jeff.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] only one CPU is detected when dom0 boots up
I notice that it is caused by change set 10139, then does it mean that we have
to configure CPU hot plug to start multiple CPUs in the future?

Ping

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yu, Ping Y
>Sent: 2006年5月25日 16:01
>To: Ryan Harper
>Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Zheng, Jeff
>Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] only one CPU is detected when dom0 boots up
>
>Harper,
>
>Thanks a lot. It works! But the question remains that why change set 10033
>could bring up multiple CPUs without hotplug.
>I notice that there is no change in build configuration since 9980.
>
>Ping
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ryan Harper [mailto:ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: 2006年5月25日 10:44
>>To: Yu, Ping Y
>>Cc: Zheng, Jeff; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] only one CPU is detected when dom0 boots up
>>
>>* Yu, Ping Y <ping.y.yu@xxxxxxxxx> [2006-05-25 11:59]:
>>> Harper,
>>>
>>> You are right! The default build configuration linux-defconfig_xen0_x86_64/
>>>  linux-defconfig_xen0_x86_32 is UP, and we have manually changed the default
>>> configure to make it SMP. We noticed that "uname -a" shows the dom0's kernel
>>is
>>>  SMP, but the problem is that only one CPU is found when dom0 boots up.
>>> With the same change, we know at least change set 10033 is OK to boot with
>>> multiple CPUs.
>>
>>Make sure CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is also enabled.  After having both
>>CONFIG_SMP and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, try:
>>
>>xm vcpu-set 0 2
>>
>>replacing 2 with however many cpu's you think dom0 should have.
>>
>>--
>>Ryan Harper
>>Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
>>IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
>>(512) 838-9253   T/L: 678-9253
>>ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx
>
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