Re: [PATCH v9 01/10] s390x/cpus: Make absence of multithreading clear

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 10/11/22 09:21, Pierre Morel wrote:
> On 9/28/22 18:28, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > On 9/28/22 18:16, Pierre Morel wrote:
> > > More thinking about this I will drop this patch for backward compatibility and 
> > > in topology masks treat CPUs as being cores*threads
> >
> > yes. You never know, people might have set threads=2 in their
> > domain file (like me). You could give the user a warning though,
> > with warn_report().
>
> More thinking, I come back to the first idea after Daniel comment and protect 
> the change with a new machine type version.

yes. That would be another machine class attribute to set in the new machine,
may be 'max_threads' to compare with the user provided value.

C.

> > Thanks,
> >
> > C.
> >
> >
> > >