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-rw-r--r--hw/ppc/spapr.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
index 9e7088a192..499ab647d8 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
@@ -2305,9 +2305,14 @@ static void spapr_set_vsmt_mode(sPAPRMachineState *spapr, Error **errp)
}
/* In this case, spapr->vsmt has been set by the command line */
} else {
- /* Choose a VSMT mode that may be higher than necessary but is
- * likely to be compatible with hosts that don't have VSMT. */
- spapr->vsmt = MAX(kvm_smt, smp_threads);
+ /*
+ * Default VSMT value is tricky, because we need it to be as
+ * consistent as possible (for migration), but this requires
+ * changing it for at least some existing cases. We pick 8 as
+ * the value that we'd get with KVM on POWER8, the
+ * overwhelmingly common case in production systems.
+ */
+ spapr->vsmt = 8;
}
/* KVM: If necessary, set the SMT mode: */