Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 01/16] hw/cpu: introduce CPU clusters

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 06:24:19PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 18:06, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> > In either case, I'm still missing a clear description of what a
> > cluster is supposed to represent, exactly (see my previous reply
> > on this thread).
> 
> Here's my attempt:
> 
> A cluster is a group of CPUs which are all identical and have
> the same view of the rest of the system.
> If CPUs are not identical (for example, Cortex-A53 and
> Cortex-A57 CPUs in an Arm big.LITTLE system) they should be
> in different clusters.
> If the CPUs do not have the same view of memory (for example
> the main CPU and a management controller processor) they should
> be in different clusters.
> 
> I agree that this is slightly confusing, because the concept
> is on the boundary between something that's real in hardware
> (eg in a big.LITTLE setup the CPUs are in separate hardware
> clusters, and of coures a BMC processor and the main CPU
> are definitely different things) and something that we're
> defining for its effects on the GDB UI and so we can make
> sure we don't share TCG translated code where we shouldn't.
> 

Thanks!

With that definition in mind, why can't QEMU cluster CPUs
automatically by looking at CPU models and address space objects?

-- 
Eduardo