All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: "Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Max Reitz" <mreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option)
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:43:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-MTrAbZG7hR355MzQp1GTXUHeZodTJKidLT+piaw9fGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-AEKKL-0c4jpV5bMeAWszWndYWbqoaOqJBnDqn82N_AA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 11:00, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:40, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:
> > > What about "-accel any" or "-accel fastest" or something similar?
> >
> > "any" is just ambiguous, "fastest" is just begging for me to find a
> > micro-benchmark that TCG outperforms on ;-)
> >
> > "-accel default" could be considered to have vibes of Do The Right
> > Thing (tm) and could in time actually become so!
>
> That would be a weird choice, because it's not actually the default!
>
> The obvious analogy here is with -cpu best, -machine gic-version=best,
> etc -- use "best". You can argue that it's maybe not got the ideal
> set of connotations, but I think that trying to be consistent about
> the name we use for "do the thing that seems to be the most
> sensible for the host/etc that we've got" is worthwhile.

This is actually a load of rubbish, because the cpu option is
'max', not 'best'. I still like consistency, though :-)

-- PMM


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-10 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-06 13:09 [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-06 13:16 ` Max Reitz
2020-01-07 10:03 ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 10:14   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 12:18     ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 12:23       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 12:54         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-07 14:14           ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 14:20             ` Priority of -accel Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-07 14:27               ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-07 14:35                 ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-13 14:39                   ` Markus Armbruster
2020-01-13 16:14                     ` Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-13 16:23                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 14:26             ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-08 10:39             ` Alex Bennée
2020-01-08 10:58               ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-08 12:41                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 13:10                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2020-01-08 13:24                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 14:00                       ` Priority of -accel Thomas Huth
2020-01-08 11:00               ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Peter Maydell
2020-01-10 10:43                 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-01-07 12:29       ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-07 12:34       ` Priority of -accel Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-07 12:37         ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-01-07 13:55     ` Priority of -accel (was: [PATCH] tests/qemu-iotests: Update tests to recent desugarized -accel option) Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-07 14:37       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-07 14:42         ` Thomas Huth
2020-01-07 17:43         ` Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-07 17:53           ` Peter Maydell
2020-01-08  9:47           ` Kevin Wolf
2020-01-13 16:17         ` Priority of -accel Markus Armbruster
2020-01-13 16:25           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-14  8:59             ` Markus Armbruster
2020-01-14 10:44               ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-14 17:49             ` Christophe de Dinechin
2020-01-14 17:59               ` Daniel P. Berrangé

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAFEAcA-MTrAbZG7hR355MzQp1GTXUHeZodTJKidLT+piaw9fGQ@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=peter.maydell@linaro.org \
    --cc=alex.bennee@linaro.org \
    --cc=armbru@redhat.com \
    --cc=berrange@redhat.com \
    --cc=kwolf@redhat.com \
    --cc=mreitz@redhat.com \
    --cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
    --cc=philmd@redhat.com \
    --cc=qemu-block@nongnu.org \
    --cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
    --cc=wainersm@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.