Re: [edk2-devel] PR fails due to OVMF time out

["Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 10:21:27AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 20:23, Kinney, Michael D
> <michael.d.kinney@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Gerd,
> >
> > I have investigated this failure with enabling -smp 4.  I think this is an
> > important feature that should be on by default.
> >
> 
> Agreed. And given your investigation below (thanks!), we should be
> able to revert the revert as long as we add '-accel
> tcg,thread-single', right?

That is how I read it, yes.

> It would be nice if we could also get some coverage for KVM, but for
> the time being, this seems to be an improvement already (AFAIU, we
> want -smp 4 primarily for the logic used in the code, while there is
> very little code that would actually run concurrently, if any)

Yes, it's to improve MpInit test coverage.  Most code would continue to
run single-threaded.

take care,
  Gerd