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SubjectRe: KVM warning about uncertified CPU for SMP for AMD model 2, stepping 3
On Wed 2010-03-31 14:51:35, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > >I guess these warnings could be just disabled. With nearly everyone
> > >using multi-core these days they are kind of obsolete anyways.
> > Well, the warning refers to an old single-core only CPU model. Most of
> > those were able to run in SMP boards, but only a subset of them was
> > officially certified to do so (Athlon-MP instead of Athlon-XP).
>
> Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
>
> > To avoid complaints about instability of such systems, the warning was
> > introduced. If you consider these systems still supported, I wouldn't
> > disable this warning, at least the check should be disabled only if the
> > hypervisor CPUID bit is set.
>
> The point was that everyone can have a multi-core system for cheap
> these days, no real motivation for anyone anymore to use old unsupported
> configurations to get one.

It still seems better to fix kvm to emulate smp-capable cpu...

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