Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:36:42 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: KVM warning about uncertified CPU for SMP for AMD model 2, stepping 3 |
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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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