Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:20:32 -0500 From: FreeBSD Louisville <freebsdlouisville@gmail.com> To: Antranig Vartanian <antranigv@freebsd.am>, freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I allocate some CPUs to the bhyve host? Message-ID: <44660ee3-938a-42ab-8c19-2d1c8d655780@Gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <13C5B773-5437-4087-9A88-AFD6C4A0F021@freebsd.am> References: <978106d8-1ad0-4227-a387-aa4bece0b156@Gmail.com> <13C5B773-5437-4087-9A88-AFD6C4A0F021@freebsd.am>
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Thanks for the quick response and your time. I may have confused the issue. I want to dedicate a certain number of CPUs to the host, thereby assuring CPUs are not over-provisioned to guests. On 2/15/25 10:40, Antranig Vartanian wrote: > I think you can. > > bhyve has an option named -p which maps the vcpu to the host cpu. In our > cluster we have the following in vm-bhyve’s config file: > > bhyve_options="-p 0:28 -p 100:156 -p 1:29 -p 101:157 -p 2:30 -p 102:158 -p 3:31 > -p 103:159 -p 4:32 -p 104:160 -p 5:33 -p 105:161 -p 6:34 -p 106:162 […] 197:253 > -p 98:126 -p 198:254 -p 99:127 -p 199:255” > > Now, to be fair I am matching a single vCPU to a host CPU (and then using the > cpuset subsystem to “Detach” that cpu from the host), but I don’t see a reason why > you would not be able to match multiple vCPUs to a single host CPU. (someone > correct me if I'm wrong). > > Hope this helps. > > — > Antranig Vartanian > https://antranigv.am/ > PGP Key ID: 0x2D59F21C > >> On 15 Feb 2025, at 7:34 PM, FreeBSD Louisville <freebsdlouisville@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It appears to me that a user could over-provision CPUs to guests, causing massive slowdown of the system. Can I specify CPUs to be "locked" to the host? If I have 16 processors available, could I start guests that want 32 CPUs? >> >>
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