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Add the ability to control the CPU topology of created VMs

Description

Add the ability to control the CPU topology of created VMs
from userland without the need to use sysctls, it allows the old
sysctls to continue to function, but deprecates them at
FreeBSD_version 1200060 (Relnotes for deprecate).

The command line of bhyve is maintained in a backwards compatible way.
The API of libvmmapi is maintained in a backwards compatible way.
The sysctl's are maintained in a backwards compatible way.

Added command option looks like:
bhyve -c [[cpus=]n][,sockets=n][,cores=n][,threads=n][,maxcpus=n]
The optional parts can be specified in any order, but only a single
integer invokes the backwards compatible parse. [,maxcpus=n] is
hidden by #ifdef until kernel support is added, though the api
is put in place.

bhyvectl --get-cpu-topology option added.

Reviewed by: grehan (maintainer, earlier version),
Reviewed by: bcr (manpages)
Approved by: bde (mentor), phk (mentor)
Tested by: Oleg Ginzburg <olevole@olevole.ru> (cbsd)
MFC after: 1 week
Relnotes: Y
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9930

Details

Provenance
rgrimesAuthored on
Reviewer
grehan
Differential Revision
D9930: Bhyve cpu topology control
Parents
rS332297: Pedantic polishing of code to please FlexeLint.
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