[pve-devel] [PATCH container 1/2] fix #2938: increase limit of max cores from 128 to 512

[Oguz Bektas]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:03:52AM +0200, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> On 9/14/20 12:32 PM, Oguz Bektas wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Oguz Bektas <o.bektas at proxmox.com>
> > ---
> >  src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
> > index 4cd669c..223b10e 100644
> > --- a/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
> > +++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Config.pm
> > @@ -401,14 +401,14 @@ my $confdesc = {
> >  	type => 'integer',
> >  	description => "The number of cores assigned to the container. A container can use all available cores by default.",
> >  	minimum => 1,
> > -	maximum => 128,
> > +	maximum => 512,
> >      },
> >      cpulimit => {
> >  	optional => 1,
> >  	type => 'number',
> >  	description => "Limit of CPU usage.\n\nNOTE: If the computer has 2 CPUs, it has a total of '2' CPU time. Value '0' indicates no CPU limit.",
> >  	minimum => 0,
> > -	maximum => 128,
> > +	maximum => 512,
> >  	default => 0,
> >      },
> >      cpuunits => {
> > 
> 
> why 512? please give state some actual reason for choosing such a number,
> especially if it differs from our current kernel config value of 8192...
> 
> https://git.proxmox.com/?p=mirror_ubuntu-focal-kernel.git;a=blob;f=arch/x86/Kconfig;h=8ef85139553f5a4ad5187375af898266355c4177;hb=b311b46c7d1ab21bf0a11a6fa5bad76f98fb77af#l1014
it was a somewhat arbitrary value i picked, sounded big enough

but i guess you're right :)