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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2020-07-01 14:56:27 +0100
committerAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2020-07-11 15:53:00 +0100
commitb09539444a4b319b02043638682867ad02b1f47e (patch)
treee3712f066b1dd3c87a72ee1b81c2c8a0be9fd49d
parent2fea3a125dd8ff05c0a8d324573d31f24cc6d422 (diff)
tests/vm: allow us to take advantage of MTTCG
We currently limit TCG guests to -smp 1 but now we have added some aarch64 guests we can do better when running on x86_64 hardware. Raise the limit for TCG guests when it is safe to do so. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Robert Foley <robert.foley@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200701135652.1366-16-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
-rw-r--r--tests/vm/basevm.py11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tests/vm/basevm.py b/tests/vm/basevm.py
index cc0809b6c7..7acb48b876 100644
--- a/tests/vm/basevm.py
+++ b/tests/vm/basevm.py
@@ -551,8 +551,15 @@ def parse_config(config, args):
def parse_args(vmcls):
def get_default_jobs():
- if kvm_available(vmcls.arch):
- return multiprocessing.cpu_count() // 2
+ if multiprocessing.cpu_count() > 1:
+ if kvm_available(vmcls.arch):
+ return multiprocessing.cpu_count() // 2
+ elif os.uname().machine == "x86_64" and \
+ vmcls.arch in ["aarch64", "x86_64", "i386"]:
+ # MTTCG is available on these arches and we can allow
+ # more cores. but only up to a reasonable limit. User
+ # can always override these limits with --jobs.
+ return min(multiprocessing.cpu_count() // 2, 8)
else:
return 1