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+CPU Topology on s390x
+=====================
+
+CPU Topology on S390x provides up to 5 levels of topology containers:
+nodes, drawers, books, sockets and CPUs.
+While the higher level containers, Containers Topology List Entries,
+(Containers TLE) define a tree hierarchy, the lowest level of topology
+definition, the CPU Topology List Entry (CPU TLE), provides the placement
+of the CPUs inside the parent container.
+
+Currently QEMU CPU topology uses a single level of container: the sockets.
+
+For backward compatibility, threads can be declared on the ``-smp`` command
+line. They will be seen as CPUs by the guest as long as multithreading
+is not really supported by QEMU for S390.
+
+Prerequisites
+-------------
+
+To use CPU Topology a Linux QEMU/KVM machine providing the CPU Topology facility
+(STFLE bit 11) is required.
+
+However, since this facility has been enabled by default in an early version
+of QEMU, we use a capability, ``KVM_CAP_S390_CPU_TOPOLOGY``, to notify KVM
+QEMU use of the CPU Topology.
+
+Indicating the CPU topology to the Virtual Machine
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+The CPU Topology, can be specified on the QEMU command line
+with the ``-smp`` or the ``-device`` QEMU command arguments.
+
+Like in :
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+ -smp cpus=5,sockets=8,cores=2,threads=2,maxcpus=32
+ -device host-s390x-cpu,core-id=14
+
+New CPUs can be plugged using the device_add hmp command like in:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+ (qemu) device_add host-s390x-cpu,core-id=9
+
+The core-id defines the placement of the core in the topology by
+starting with core 0 in socket 0 up to maxcpus.
+
+In the example above:
+
+* There are 5 CPUs provided to the guest with the ``-smp`` command line
+ They will take the core-ids 0,1,2,3,4
+ As we have 2 threads in 2 cores in a socket, we have 4 CPUs provided
+ to the guest in socket 0, with core-ids 0,1,2,3.
+ The last cpu, with core-id 4, will be on socket 1.
+
+* the core with ID 14 provided by the ``-device`` command line will
+ be placed in socket 3, with core-id 14
+
+* the core with ID 9 provided by the ``device_add`` qmp command will
+ be placed in socket 2, with core-id 9
+
+Note that the core ID is machine wide and the CPU TLE masks provided
+by the STSI instruction will be:
+
+* in socket 0: 0xf0000000 (core id 0,1,2,3)
+* in socket 1: 0x00400000 (core id 9)
+* in socket 1: 0x00020000 (core id 14)
+
+Enabling CPU topology
+---------------------
+
+Currently, CPU topology is disabled by default.
+
+Enabling CPU topology can be done by setting the feature flag
+``disable-topology`` to ``off`` like in:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+ -cpu gen16b,disable-topology=off
+
+Having the topology disabled by default allows migration between
+old and new QEMU without adding new flags.
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